Treat our own nurses with respect

THE EDITOR: Mr Colm Imbert what is really going on? Doctors and nurses from Cuba will be employed in a month’s time. Charity is supposed to begin at home and end abroad. Nursing students who were successful at the Nursing Council Examination on December 4, 2002 are reporting for duty every day without any assurance as to when they will be employed. Since January 9, 2003 these students received their licence to practise nursing and have been functioning in the capacity of RN and RMN and some of them are even working shift. When enquires are made the authorities remain mum about this situation. Imagine Cuban nurses are given preferences for employment over our locally trained nurses. Come on Mr Colm Imbert, please look into this matter with utter urgency. Treat your local nurses with respect and they will surely serve TT.

PAULINE BROWN
Nursing Student