Bridgetown, Barbados:— Twenty-seven nurses drawn from five countries across the region have all successfully completed specialized training in the care of children with cancer and other blood disorders.
The nurses all successfully completed the Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Nursing Diploma Programme at the University of the West Indies School of Nursing in Trinidad, with the last cohort finishing last April.
Twenty-six of the 27 nurses from Barbados, The Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who completed the specialized one-year programme, were part of SickKids-Caribbean Initiative.
In 2013, with the support of SickKids Foundation the SickKids-Caribbean Initiative
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