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Law suits filed over Barbados nursing home deaths
Published on September 14, 2015
Jenise Belgrave, owner/manager of Gentle Folks Nursing Home in Barbados, where two residents died recently in questionable circumstances
By Jodi McQial
Caribbean News Now contributor
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- While the Barbados minister of health has called for the island’s nursing and hospice establishments, registered and unregistered, to step up to the plate, the Gentle Folks Nursing Home, which was featured by Caribbean News Now in May, is back in the news after the recent deaths of two elderly residents have prompted law suits.
Discussions To Address Caribbean Nursing Shortage
August 17, 2015 by Easton
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Jamaica’s minister of health, Dr Fenton Ferguson, says that discussions are underway to facilitate the seamless movement of nurses throughout the Caribbean in order to address needs in various areas.
The aim is to address imbalances, which challenge the delivery of quality healthcare in each territory.
Ferguson, who was addressing the opening ceremony of the 41st annual general meeting of the Regional Nursing Body in Kingston, said that, while there is an overall shortage of nurses throughout the region, particularly in specialist areas, there is an oversupply in some territories, and in some categories.
“We have opened discussions aimed at tapping into this pool of available nursing resources and have a situation where there can be a seamless movement of the talent, between territories, that it will fulfill identified needs, and address the imbalance,” he stated.