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Home / Wellness / Health / Dear Editor: Idi is right, T&T must do more to support overworked nurses in this perilous time Dear Editor: Idi is right, T&T must do more to support overworked nurses in this perilous time “[…] What many forget, what the mainstream media does not highlight, what the ‘jacket and tie’ crowd in the media briefings does not mention is this: that these front-line workers, exposed daily to the virus, leave to go home to their families exhausted after double-shifts sometimes. “Let us remember the level of trauma they are experiencing constantly…” The followi...

Union head: Help those losing income through latest restrictions Friday 30 April 2021 A police van drives past the closed Gulf City mall in La Romaine on Friday. - Photo by Lincoln Holder Head of the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union (ATSGWTU) Nirvan Maharaj hopes Government will put measures in place to assist workers who will be losing income because of the tightened restrictions to curb the spread of the covid19 virus. He suggested that such measures should include  resuming grants and even subsidies to some businesses. Saying he was not a medical expert, the trade union...

Deyalsingh agrees on four measures to address Covid-19 infections at POSGH, no timeframe given Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh today discussed four main areas in a meeting aimed at reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission at the Port of Spain General Hospital, in the wake of at least five infections at the facility over the past two weeks. Among the measures on the table were: utilisation of Covid-19 rapid antigen tests to test patients before admission; increased staff testing, especially in instances where they were potentially exposed to the novel coronavirus; reduction of the pat...

  th , 2021 – Today the  Minister of Health, the Honourable Terrence Deyalsingh, a high-level Ministry team, and senior representatives from the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) met with Mr. Idi Stuart, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Registered Nurses Association (TTRNA) and Ms. Letitia Cox, 2 nd Vice President of the TTRNA, to discuss recent incidents of COVID-19 cases at the Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH). Discussions surrounded four main areas aimed at reducing the risk of the transmission of COVID-19 at the facility: 1.    Utilisation of COVID-19 ra...

Indarsingh tells Health Minister: Protect frontline workers Couva South MP Rudranath Indarsingh. - Couva South MP Rudranath Indarsingh is calling on Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh to say how many frontline workers in the healthcare system have tested positive for covid19, especially at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH). He was responding, in a release, to statements made by TT Registered Nurses Association president Idi Stuart. Speaking on the Morning Edition television talk show on Tuesday, Stuart said at least five nurses had tested positive for covid19 at the Northwest Regio...