The National Nurses Association has called for an urgent meeting with Minister of Tertiary Education Prakash Persad, amid word that COSTAAT's Nursing Assistant Programme is yet to attain all the requisite approvals, a year and half after the programme proposal was submitted.<br /><br />The Association notes it has been some time since nursing assistants and specialist nurses were trained in this country, leaving a serious deficit of much-needed talent in the public health sector. Rynessa Cutting reports. <br />
