MARIGOT--The Collectivit� unveiled its first nurses training school in the former Evelina Halley Primary School in Marigot on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, while also introducing the students who will begin the first three-year training course on September 5.
The rigorous pre-selection exam was passed by eight St. Martin candidates and one from St. Barths out of some 50 who originally enrolled. Passing the exam is a requisite before embarking on the three-year training to become a professional nurse.
The successful candidates are Keziah Danaus, Brinda Macdonna, Lucia Comminges, Audrey Golfin, Laticha Stephen, Beatrice Bilba, Julie Peronnin, Natacha Davis, and Elodie Greaux (of St. Barths).
The exam held on March 17 was taken in two parts and the candidates were interviewed by a specialist jury in June.
The training school in St. Martin is a branch of the nurses training school at the hospital in Pointe-�-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Director of the school in Guadeloupe Genevi�ve Bruno also will be the director of the school in St. Martin. She was present for the ceremony together with Assistant Director of the hospital in Pointe-�-Pitre and Interim Director of Louis-Constant Fleming Hospital Patrice Lecomte. Both gave short addresses, as did President of the Collectivit� Frantz Gumbs.
The principal trainer for the group will be Nadia Weinum, a professional nurse of long standing at Louis-Constant Fleming Hospital. Other trainers will come in from time to time. It is envisaged that once the students are qualified they will return to work in the Marigot hospital.
Director of the Collectivit�?s Human Development Department Thierry Gombs said the students would do their first year in St. Martin, but for the second and third year would continue their internship in hospitals in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana or France to work in the different departments.
Asked why the pre-selection pass rate had been so low, Gombs said, ?It is a very difficult exam to get into nursing school. In Guadeloupe there are something like 700 applicants for the 150 places available in the school. Once the places are filled, remaining successful candidates are put on a waiting list and have to hope that someone drops out.?
Also on hand was a nursing student from Guadeloupe, Nathalie Feliot, who is one year into her three-year training. She was there to give advice to the St. Martin students.
The three-year training course costs 201,000 euros. Of that cost. 85 per cent will be met by European Social Funds (FSE), although the Collectivit� has to pre-finance up front.
A convention was signed between Patrice Lecomte, representing Louis-Constant Fleming Hospital, and President Frantz Gumbs. The convention can be renewed after the first three years.
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