The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty, NCRHA, has re­ject­ed claims made by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion, TTR­NA, sug­gest­ing wors­en­ing pa­tient out­comes with­in the re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued to­day, the NCRHA said on­go­ing im­prove­ments in pa­tient flow and ser­vice de­liv­ery showed mea­sur­able progress across the re­gion de­spite long­stand­ing fi­nan­cial and op­er­a­tional chal­lenges in­her­it­ed from the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The Au­thor­i­ty said mor­bid­i­ty and mor­tal­i­ty fig­ures im­proved from 275 deaths record­ed in Jan­u­ary 2026 to 206 deaths record­ed in April 2026.