The president of the TT National Nursing Association, Idi Stuart, is calling attention to serious failings in the health sector following the death of six-year-old Jasher Francois.
Stuart insists nurses are not to blame for the tragedy, citing systemic shortages and neglect, and warns that it may be time for nurses to take action.
00:00Enough is enough, declares TTNNA President Edie Stewart, offering condolences to the family of six-year-old Joshua Francois.
00:11He says nurses have long warned about critical shortages and inefficiencies within the system, and now the association may be forced to take a stand.
00:21So we need to up the ante more. We need to start shutting boards that are not properly staffed. We need to start telling our nurses, do not place yourself in positions where you have to see about five and six and seven and eight and 20 patients.
00:43Stewart says Trinidad and Tobago does not have pediatric nurses. We do not have neonatal nurses or doctors. Yet governments continue to open hospitals like Vanity Projects. He says he cannot support it.
00:58So we will vehemently, if we have to go and protest, and do like our comrade Kublai Singh, and protest and fast outside that covert children's hospital, if they want to open it, to prevent what is happening right now, to prevent more instances of what is happening right now.
01:18The association president blasts management failures, saying governments have repeatedly ignored calls to fix the health care crisis.
01:27The association has not been able to convince successive governments, not been able to convince successive ministers of health, to ensure we have safe staffing levels, that we have mandatory minimum patient to staff ratios.
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