Nurses from the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) staged a protest at the entrance to the facility yesterday, holding cardboard placards and chanting their demands.

With signs in hand, the message was not about money this time, but rather a call for better working conditions. An A&E nurse told THE STAR that nurses are grappling with numerous challenges.

“There are a lot of stressors that we have to work with, whether it’s lack of resources, lack of staff, and the administration is not privy to these struggles because they are not working on the floor like the immediate staff,” the nurse explained. The nurse stressed that for those looking on who may view the action as just another protest by nurses, “no one understands what nurses go through”.