The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) will roll out a 15-point ac­tion plan to its mem­ber­ship by the end of the week in re­sponse to the Health Min­is­ter’s claim that their march on Fri­day had no ef­fect on the health sec­tor.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at TTNNA’s War­ren Street, St Au­gus­tine of­fice yes­ter­day, nurs­ing as­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art said the com­ments made by Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe that there was no cri­sis in the health sec­tor an­gered the nurs­es. He said that the com­ment forced an emer­gency meet­ing of the ex­ec­u­tive.

“We un­der­stand that surg­eries were post­poned, peo­ple’s clin­ics were can­celled, a num­ber of things hap­pened. Again, I must re­it­er­ate for the Min­is­ter of Health to in­di­cate that this is not a cri­sis. God for­bid that health­care work­ers be­gin to think out­side the box to force him to re­alise that this in­deed is a cri­sis.”