THE Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) is moving full speed ahead towards implementing a new administrative structure of its nursing staff for the Scarborough Regional Hospital.
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Word of this has come from Secretary for Health and Social Services Claudia Groome-Duke following a meeting she had summoned with the board of the TRHA last week Monday.
Speaking to Mirror in an exclusive interview last week Tuesday, Duke said that given the fact that the new hospital is soon to come on stream, she instructed the board to accelerate the process for the implementation of the new staffing structure for nurses.
“Already, we have begun to interview senior nurses with a view of appointing them to their new positions,” she revealed. “Once these senior nurses are appointed, it would create a number of vacancies lower down the line, to allow opportunities for mobility among the rest of the nursing staff,” stressed Groome-Duke. Questioned about the situation of Tobago’s graduate nurses, who after completing their training in Trinidad have been languishing on the breadline since last year April, Groome-Duke assured that they also would be brought into the new system.
“They will be called in for their interviews very soon, as we want them to be included as an integral part of this new staffing set up,” she declared.
And on the issue of the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the TRHA, Duke revealed that an offer was made to an applicant for that position. “The matter is out of my hands as this is a decision of the Executive Council,” she stressed.
