{"id":114859,"date":"2020-08-10T07:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=114859"},"modified":"2020-08-10T07:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:24:26","slug":"govt-looks-abroad-to-solve-nursing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/govt-looks-abroad-to-solve-nursing-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t Looks Abroad To Solve Nursing Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Antigua and Barbuda facing a shortage of nurses, the Government could soon amend laws to allow the country to employ foreign nurses.<\/p>

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The shortage of nurses is being driven by a brain drain.<\/p>\n

Information Minister Melford Nicholas said for many years, nurses trained in Antigua and Barbuda have been drawn to Canada, the United Kingdom and United States, jurisdictions that pay far more than Antigua and Barbuda can afford.<\/p>

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\u201cBut there\u2019s the other challenge, should the occasion arise where we have an absolute shortage and we do not have enough retired nurses returning to the pool; or the persons who are not being trained are not sufficient, we may have to exercise the option of bringing in nurses to cope with the losses that we ourselves sustained because people have been poaching nurses from our economy,\u201d Nicholas said.<\/p>

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The Minister said there are a number of nursing students enrolled at the University of the West Indies Five Islands campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge is that we cannot produce a nurse out of the system in six months; it does take a while. So there are nurses who probably would graduate within the next six to eight months who will then increase the volume of nurses available,\u201d Nicholas said.<\/p>

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