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Nurses necessary for UHC implementation

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AS the healthcare debate rages on, Alicia Baptiste, President of the St. Lucia Nurses Association, has spoken about the need to improve working conditions for nurses, as well as for nurses to be included in the policy-making aspect of healthcare.

She pointed out that a lack of access to healthcare is a battle in which nurses “need to be at the forefront” especially in regards to “advocating for access to health [care].”

Baptiste noted that “The right to health applies to nurses as well.”

The president also called for a ‘people-centred approach’ to healthcare that includes “fostering partnerships” to develop innovative models of health care delivery.”

She said, “A people-centred approach, a functional health system, the availability of an appropriately-skilled workforce and addressing the issues of access, are the critical building blocks for universal health care coverage.”

Dean Nestor is from Choiseul but from young adulthood, his years were spent in Castries. He studied at St. Mary’s College from 1999 to 2004 and later pursued a college education in English Literature, History and Sociology at Sir Arthur Lewis Community College from 2004 to 2006.

After graduating from Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, he began working as a teacher from 2009 until 2016...Read full bio...

 

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