Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) of the Ministry of Public Health, Taramattie Persaud-Barker is retiring after having given 31 years of service to the nursing profession. She is due to retire on July 1, 2018, according to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI).
Barker, who is on pre-retirement leave, serves as the Chair-person of the Guyana Nursing Council and as Commissioner of the National Commission for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases.
Persaud-Barker began her professional nursing career at the Georgetown School of Nursing on September 17, 1984. She graduated in 1987 as a Registered Nurse and was then employed by the Ministry of Health, working at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).