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Caribbean nations are hitting the panic button amid a massive ‘brain drain’ in the health sector

ed — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:46:18 +0000

According to a media report by Caribbean news now, Dominica is reintroducing a training program for healthcare nurses to address the rise of deaths caused by the rise in chronic Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs). Reportedly, Dominica’s prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit at his recent swearing-in of Cabinet Minister following the snap elections that happened on December 6 Read More

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PAHO director wants more done to protect nursing workforce

ed — Thu, 05 May 2022 23:11:37 +0000

The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Dr Carissa F. Etienne has called on countries to urgently increase investments to develop and retain the nursing workforce as the region, including the Caribbean record increases in hospitalisations and cases linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “Throughout the Americas, nurses bravely faced the brunt Read More

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Jamaica: COVID-19 worsens nursing brain drain

ed — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:59:52 +0000

A local medical school official has charged that 85 per cent of Jamaica’s trained nurses migrate after completing their training and the situation has been made worse by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Executive dean at Caribbean School of Medical Science, Jamaica (CSMSJ) Dr Neville Graham made the claim at the institution’s first graduation ceremony recently, Read More

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