Is ‘Quality Health Care’ a priority for this Labour Party Administration?

I was always taught that prevention is better than cure and preventative health care is unavoidably people centered. Preventative medicine is also the cornerstone of our once renowned Primary Healthcare System. There is not one policy under this administration of which I am aware that has lessened the despair and disarray in the Primary Care system. On the contrary the epic failure to provide adequate health services in the Marigot and Portsmouth health districts coupled with the colossal failure to maximize the expertise at Ross University in this regard reflects gross negligence and incompetence. It surely doesn’t reflect any priority to provide QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES to our people.

All competent and experienced health care practitioners know that competent, experienced, well trained, culturally sensitive and fluent nurses are the ‘back bone’ of any quality health care system. This DLP regime’s failure to ensure the necessary training to ensure competence and career mobility as well their lack of compassion and sensitivity to the plight of nurses will ensure the burial of quality health care in this country.

Juxtapose this to the impending importation of thirty Cuban nurses to assist with a health system on life support when ten years ago this DLP administration boasted of training so many nurses that it could export. Guess what the lecturers then were Cuban.