NCRHA welcomes 61 nurses into health system

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) yes­ter­day wel­comed a co­hort of 61 reg­is­tered nurs­es.

In a re­lease an­nounc­ing the de­vel­op­ment, the NCRHA said its chair­man, CEO and mem­bers of the ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment team met with the new in­take.

It said the man­age­ment team ex­pressed sin­cere ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the nurs­es’ com­mit­ment to serve on the front­line and their will­ing­ness to sup­port nurs­ing teams across NCRHA fa­cil­i­ties, say­ing this will help bol­ster ca­pac­i­ty to bet­ter serve pa­tients, their fam­i­lies and cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go. They al­so thanked the group for their ded­i­ca­tion and en­cour­aged them to con­tin­ue in a spir­it of pro­fes­sion­al­ism, love and care.

A co­hort of 50 nurs­es al­so be­gan ori­en­ta­tion at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope at the start of the month.

The NCRHA said it recog­nis­es the vi­tal role of nurs­es and re­mains com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing the de­liv­ery of qual­i­ty pa­tient care. The de­vel­op­ment comes as nurs­es across the coun­try have been protest­ing, call­ing for pay in­creas­es and bet­ter work­ing con­di­tions. One such protest is card­ed for to­day, with nurs­es ex­pect­ed to march from the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal to the Min­istry of Fi­nance.