RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

For­mer med­ical di­rec­tor and cur­rent di­rec­tor of the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty, Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon, is urg­ing nurs­es to re­flect on com­pas­sion and du­ty amid an on­go­ing im­passe be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) and the re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ties.

In a state­ment is­sued in his pri­vate ca­pac­i­ty as a med­ical prac­ti­tion­er and not as the SWRHA di­rec­tor, Dr Cha­toor­goon stressed that his com­ments do not rep­re­sent the po­si­tion of the board, but were in­stead an ap­peal ground­ed in re­spect for the pro­fes­sion.