PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN TRINIDAD CAN BE TOUGH, BUT THERE’S ALWAYS THE BEACH
February 1st, 2009
BY JAMES FULLER
THE TWIN island republic of Trinidad & Tobago is many people's idea of a tropical idyll but Sunita Kissoon, senior nurse/midwife at the Gulf View Medical Centre in San Fernando, says medical care in her country is fundamentally lacking when compared to the UK.
"One of the biggest challenges I face is that, being English-trained, the lack of cohesiveness in the system here is enormously frustrating," said Ms Kissoon, who trained at London's Central Middlesex Hospital between 1974-77 and is a registered nurse, registered midwife, a ...
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