BARBADOS – A recruitment team from Barbados will leave next month to Ghana to start hiring nurses that is in short supply in the Caribbean island.
In a visit last month to Barbados, Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo offered up to 400 nurses to meet the shortfall in Barbados.
According to the Barbados Nation, Minister of Health and Wellness Jeffrey Bostic said before the six-member team leaves, every effort will be made to ensure that all registered nurses and nursing aides who have applied to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will be given an opportunity to be interviewed and hired.
The six-member recruitment team will include the chairman of the Board of the QEH, a second board member who is a representative of the Council of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados, the director of nursing, the director of human resources, the Chief Nursing Officer in the Ministry Health and a representative from the Barbados Council.
They will leave on August 13 and return on the 26.
