Nurses avoid Jamaica... Former health-care workers now in USA detail horror stories about working at home

Sunday, May 09, 2021

BY KIMONE FRANCIS
Senior staff reporter
francisk@jamaicaobserver.com

 “JAMAICA will never benefit from my services again, never.”

Those are the words of Sade Williams, a 35-year-old registered nurse who immigrated to the United States in 2018 after working five years in the public health system at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).

The alleged horrors experienced at the Type A facility by the woman who now lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia, coupled with “the constant disrespect of nurses”, have left a bitter taste in her mouth.

At first opportunity she fled the country with the desire for a higher standard of living in mind.

“Before I go back and give my services to Jamaica as an ICU (intensive care unit) nurse I'd retire and work at a Walmart. That is how strongly I feel about the treatment of nurses in Jamaica,” said Williams in an interview with the Jamaica Observer on Friday. more

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