Four Caribbean nations to tackle nursing shortage

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Four Caribbean nations - St Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands and Suriname - are to address the severe shortage of nurses in the region.

A plan of action to develop and recognise excellence in nursing services as a regional pilot project, has been mapped out at a recent meeting in Jamaica.

Principal Nursing Officer in St. Kitts and Nevis and Vice Chair of the Regional Nursing Body, Ms. Henrietta Douglas, who attended the meeting in Jamaica, said the effort is the first of its kind in the world.

She said it is a vanguard project of the Regional Nursing Body that is a strategy of the Managed Migration Programme.

"If the pilot project is successful, other Caribbean islands will become involved in the programme," Ms. Douglas said.

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