Nurses Protest In Trinidad & Tobago

[LadyDeath]

Nurses have been protesting all over the country for higher wages and expected back pay. Last time the Nurses in the Port Of Spain General Hospital had a protest where they walked out on the job or took a sick in protest of higher wages and working conditions. This week Nurses held a protest at the Sando General Hospital just as Fuad Khan was opening the new Nephrology Center demanding money. The way they described the protest scene was "more active than a Jouvert band'.

I was speaking with some coworkers and they were saying that they have never saw nurses in history of T&T have these kind of active protest and that the behaviour of the staff was not called for. Even when Police Officers were protesting the other day (who have a longer court case than Nurses)have never acted the way they did or sicked out on their work.


In my opinion, i agree that they should be paid, but we are a third world corrupted country. Everyone knows that. Nurses play an important role in health care after all but these are lives we are talking about. They took an oath to help save lives . Why sick out and have sick humans depending on a nurses' care? Many know that before they signed to enroll in Nursing school that the occupation is underpaid, they would have to work in deplorable conditions and work the hell out of themselves, so why are they surprised now?? This is expected! So don't sick out or stay away from work because of this. It was happening long before many of them entered the field.

Just like Teachers and Police Officers before they applied, it is widely known to all, that the occupation is underpaid, long working hours, infrastructure needs updating, etc etc. Yet they still went through. This is Trinidad and i have lost hope in my country that it will change now.

 

[nirtime]

I suppose your argument is fair for the younger population. For the older ones who probably entered the service in the more primitive days, they may have had hopes that it would evolve and become modernized or it was probably better off way back when. In so doing they would not have known that it would become such a difficult and underpaid profession. However, it is true, the younger people who chose the profession had all the information available about the issues and pressure that goes on with nursing daily.

 

[admin]

Its really shameful to watch persons who are in a Profession behave like that, shouting running down the minster behaving like they have no conduct.
These people need to know their place, this is not carnival time to be getting on like a drunken fool, conduct yourselves better than that people you are representing a Professional Job. If you like can't help yourself then join KFC thats maybe where some of you nurses who where behaving like that belong.

 

[The Dude]

My solution to most of these problems is give them more money and hold them to higher standards. Pay them like professionals and weed out the unprofessional ones. It would also open up the profession for young one wanted to start a career.

 

[nirtime]

My solution to most of these problems is give them more money and hold them to higher standards. Pay them like professionals and weed out the unprofessional ones. It would also open up the profession for young one wanted to start a career.

If everyone gets a raise inflation just goes up and all we'll have is the cycle repeating itself. I feel better infrastructure and job benefits would be the way to go as well as bringing the salary up to standard public servant grade if it is below.

Accountability and worker monitoring systems to go along with the changes would go a long way. There are a lot of unprofessional nurses and people in other professions who are suppose tp serve the country's people but instead they operate like they want a head bashing to understand.