WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank says that nursing shortages across the English-speaking Caribbean limit access and quality of health services and affect the region’s competitiveness.
In a new report, entitled “The Nurse Labour and Education Markets in the English-Speaking CARICOM – Issues and Options for Reform,” released here this week, the region is facing a “rapidly growing shortage of nurses as demand for quality health care increases”.
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Is this article for Dominica? I would really like to know because apparently we have enough nurses in Dominica due to the fact that since December over 50 individuals completed the programs and has yet to receive any information about working at the hospital or in the community setting. They were left without stipened and no jobs. What do you expect them to do after they have completed their studies? They will always attempt to seek employment elsewhere since Dominca do not want to give them the opportunity to work and to become a nurse. I therefore do not believe that this article is meant for Dominca. Yet when you visit the hospital there are most likely two nurses working and the wards are filled, you have over worked staff and can’t give their maximum cause they are tired. This is something that needs to be looked into. Recently it was also mentioned that a new hospital is going to be built, where are the nurses that you are going to place in there? If you are running the ones that are recently trained it makes me wonder. More incentives are needed to keep the nurses here and better packaging. The package is lowsy and needs reviewing. Stop playing politics and start serving the people.
pay them more …give more incentives…then they will stay
All u preaching double standard . Is all u that giving them nice work deals for them to leave in these same countries n come work for all u. Yet again we have to blame our people we elect to serve us in government because everything is politics the want to play so these things must happen.