Our nation has taken a decision to attain first world status according to vision 2020. It is factual that our health care administration has, and is still being constantly subjected to criticisms, some of them justifiable, pertaining to the delivery of health care to our population. It is also a fact that we do have a significant number of registered doctors and nursing personnel. However, it is an indisputable fact that doctors and nurses cannot run an efficient health care system by themselves, since they will always require trained ancillary health care personnel to complement their efforts. Unfortunately, in Trinidad and Tobago, we have traditionally placed major emphasis on the doctors and nurses sector in terms of advancing the health care needs of our country, and we firmly believe that this has been an error, and has magnified the inefficiencies of our health care system.

Read more....