SAN­DRA L BLOOD

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This time two years ago, Christ­mas sea­son 2020, med­ical staff couldn’t catch them­selves; couldn’t breathe in more ways than one—ei­ther ow­ing to hav­ing con­tract­ed the dread­ed COVID-19 dis­ease or be­ing over­whelmed, over­worked, overused, over­stressed, yet couldn’t give up. While fear­ful for their own lives, many had to help col­leagues who be­came pa­tients; sig­nal their pass­ing as well as non-med­ical pa­tients, in­clud­ing fam­i­ly and friends.

Now, to­day, while the go­ing is still a bit rough, there is a bit of breath­ing space, so much so, that a team of ded­i­cat­ed nurs­es, first­ly to their pro­fes­sion and fam­i­ly, re­served some strength, glam and buff, and have ded­i­cat­ed a bit of time to bring some bal­ance to not on­ly their life but the pub­lic’s.

To be pre­sent­ed by Lyke We En­ter­tain­ment (LWE) is the new all-nurse fete ti­tled, Es­sen­tial Nurs­es All-In­clu­sive Fete, on Feb­ru­ary 11, 2023, at Sound­Forge lo­cat­ed at 1 Christo­pher Samuel Dri­ve, St James, from 5 pm to 12 am.

In charge of this ward are the di­rec­tor of LWE and chief co­or­di­na­tor of the fete, Ter­ry Grif­fith and his com­mit­tee col­leagues, Bev­er­ley Am­bris-Bateau, Afeisha Sanchez, Es­ther Joseph Paul, Ria Neaves, Natasha St Bernard and Kurt Con­stan­tine.

To be host­ed by RKG and Bass (Tri­lo G), oth­er acts will be join­ing head­line so­ca artistes Iw­er George and Patrice Roberts, with catheters of mu­sic flow­ing from dee­jays Dr Ross, Mc Zee and Daniel, and Linx. Spon­sored by Bry­dens Trinidad and To­ba­go, will be pre­mi­um food and bev­er­age.

Grif­fith said over the last two years, ded­i­cat­ed nurs­es and health­care work­ers pro­vid­ed ser­vice to our na­tion with de­vo­tion, and of­ten with great sac­ri­fice, as they en­dured the COVID-19 Pan­dem­ic. Fur­ther, nec­es­sary na­tion­al health poli­cies and so­cial re­stric­tions re­quired to man­age the ef­fects of the virus, con­sid­er­ably af­fect­ed the abil­i­ty of health­care work­ers to de-stress at a time that re­quired them to give their all. More so, the fete is in ob­ser­vance of the ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice of our na­tion­al nurs­ing per­son­nel and by ex­ten­sion all ‘es­sen­tial’ work­ers who would have done their best and more, to keep us all safe dur­ing what was in­deed a chal­leng­ing time for every­one.

“The ob­jec­tive of this event is to pro­vide nurs­es, mem­bers of oth­er es­sen­tial ser­vices and the pub­lic, with a safe en­ter­tain­ing event that em­braces our na­tion­al cul­ture where their hard work and com­mit­ment can be recog­nised while al­low­ing them the op­por­tu­ni­ty to de-stress and re­lease some of the ten­sion that has un­de­ni­ably af­fect­ed all of us.

The Na­tion­al To­day News de­scribes nurs­es for Nurs­es’ Day as rock­stars, and now the rock­stars promise to con­tin­ue be­ing es­sen­tial in work and at play.

Deep­en­ing aware­ness of their fete and the com­mit­tee, a mas­sive launch of the fete is sched­uled for De­cem­ber 29 from 6 pm at 63 Lounge on the Av­enue.

Not on­ly will guests meet the new fete com­mit­tee, but they will re­ceive free t-shirts and fete pass­es, and tick­et par­tic­u­lars, among oth­er great things. En­ter­tain­ment will be sup­plied by spe­cial artistes Cas­si, Jadel, RKG and DJ Bass.

The launch: Free | The Fete: $600

Part pro­ceeds goes to­wards the de­vel­op­ment of a fund to sup­port the fam­i­lies of health­care work­ers who would have lost their loved one dur­ing the de­liv­ery of ser­vice to our na­tion.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion: 748-0375, 487-4518