00:00Newly installed president of the TTNNA, Letitia Cox, tells the TV6 Morning Edition nurses are angry.
00:08She says the finance minister promised relief in the 2027 fiscal package, but that promise was not kept.
00:16Why we are sad and why we are disappointed is because of a promise he made in his mid-year
00:22budget review.
00:23He indicated that nurses and everyone else who were waiting for relief would have been addressed in this budget, but
00:31that was not so.
00:32Yeah. What's the feeling among your membership at this time?
00:35Our membership, I must say, they are very angry. So it's a mixture of disappointment and anger.
00:42Cox says nurses continue to work long hours, adding that lives are lost in hospitals that should not have been
00:49lost because nursing personnel are inadequately resourced.
00:53She further highlights the continued staffing shortages at the NCRAG.
00:58I have always said that we are collateral damage in the fight for scarce resources within the health care system.
01:07Yes, we would have gotten a big portion, but that big portion, where is it going?
01:11Is it going to facilitate upper and executive management hirings?
01:16Is it really going to, you know, deal with the staffing that you need?
01:21I heard about expansion of services in different areas, in NCRAG and so on.
01:27But what about the staffing? Can you afford to bring in new staff?
01:32The association president also points to millions allocated for police overtime, noting that nurses keep getting the short end of
01:41the stick.
01:41In the male-dominated profession of the police service, because it's mostly males there, we saw some other positive things
01:49coming from those who are leading the police service when the overtime was quoted as $800 million.
01:55I am not angry with them, you know.
01:56I am happy that their service is valued, what they are doing, because, of course, we want the police presence
02:02on the street.
02:02We want to feel safe, so they should be paid for any additional hours that they work.
02:07Why is it different for nurses?
02:09Why is it different for midwives?
02:12Isn't health care important to the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago?
02:16Nicole M. Romney, TV6 News.
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