Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art is warn­ing of fur­ther dis­rup­tion across the coun­try’s health­care sys­tem fol­low­ing last Fri­day’s large-scale protest in Port-of-Spain.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Stu­art said the as­so­ci­a­tion was “over­whelmed” by the turnout, es­ti­mat­ing that more than 2,000 peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ed in the march, which in­clud­ed not on­ly nurs­es and mid­wives but a wide cross-sec­tion of health­care work­ers. He said the demon­stra­tion high­light­ed grow­ing frus­tra­tion across the sec­tor, par­tic­u­lar­ly over the lack of clar­i­ty from the Gov­ern­ment on salary in­creas­es.

“All health­care work­ers are re­al­ly ag­griev­ed at the cur­rent sta­tus quo, the cur­rent lim­bo that the Gov­ern­ment is not ar­tic­u­lat­ing in any man­ner when health­care work­ers would re­ceive a salary in­crease,” Stu­art said, adding that con­tin­ued si­lence from Lack­ram Bo­doe, the Fi­nance Min­is­ter, and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has “in­fu­ri­at­ed” work­ers.