Nurses’ Association president: T&T needs Cuban doctors, nurses

Ot­to Car­ring­ton

T&T’s health­care sys­tem is un­der se­vere strain due to a per­sis­tent short­age of nurs­ing per­son­nel, a cri­sis that could wors­en if the gov­ern­ment fails to se­cure Cuban doc­tors and nurs­es, says T&T Reg­is­tered Nurs­es’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art.

Stu­art voiced his sup­port yes­ter­day, for Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s de­fence of the na­tion’s sov­er­eign­ty in light of re­cent US threats to im­pose visa re­stric­tions on gov­ern­ments that utilise Cu­ba’s over­seas med­ical mis­sions.