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Nurses Association of Jamaica President Patsy Edwards Henry
Nurses Association of Jamaica President Patsy Edwards Henry has said the migration of nurses will not stop if their working conditions and wages do not improve.
Nurses and other public sector workers have been offered a 2.5 per cent non-negotiable wage increase for the 2021/2022 financial year. The health professionals have rejected the offer, calling it unacceptable.
Responding to criticism that nurses must live within their means, Mrs Edwards Henry pointed out nurses who have stayed in Jamaica have stayed because of "the love of the profession and the love of country...because the disrespect on and off the job, the conditions that nurses work in on off the job, it is just horrendous."
"Nurses live in a society where we still have to do every single thing, so while we understand that persons think we should do it for the love of it, we still have bills to pay," she asserted.
She said up to March, more than 180 nurses had migrated.
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