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- 22 December, 2024
OROPOUCHE VIRUS STRIKES
A GLOBAL medical virus with a distinctive Trinidad and Tobago name has turned deadly in this part of the world.
SANDO HOSPITAL ‘A HELLHOLE’
THE authorities at San Fernando General Hospital are providing short-term political jobs while the quality of medical care has hit a new low.
“The hospital has become a hellhole,” a senior medic stated, in detailing a shortage of doctors, nurses, medication and equipment.
HIGH DENGUE INFECTION RATE
THE situation with respect to dengue infection is much worse than that reported by the Ministry of Health.
ORTT’S PARASRAM AT CENTRE OF DENGUE CRISIS
CHIEF Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Roshan Parasram, who was given Trinidad and Tobago’s highest honour two years ago, is at the centre of the current deadly dengue crisis.
9 M DENGUE CASES IN THE AMERICAS
MORE than nine million cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever have been reported over the past six months in this part of the world, including Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
THE EVIDENCE: CHILDCARE EQUIPMENT MOVED FROM COUVA TO MT. HOPE
HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has denied that childcare medical equipment was moved from the Couva Children’s hospital to Mt. Hope facility.
Here is the formal authorisation for the transfer.
EXPECT NOTHING FROM PROBE INTO BABIES’ DEATHS
MEDICAL experts fear the probe into the recent deaths of seven babies at Port of Spain General Hospital will amount to nothing.
They question whether autopsies of the deceased babies were conducted and steps were taken to determine the source of the fatal bacterial infection.
DISCREDITED PARASRAM HOLDS ON AS CMO
IN the increasingly peculiar Trinidad and Tobago society, a holder of the highest honour has had a major policy measure overturned and discredited by the court.
DEYALSINGH ON THE WAY OUT?
HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh’s broadside against Kentucky Fried Chicken and other fast food franchises has led to widespread speculation that his political career is coming to a crashing end.
52 POLICE RECRUITS CATCH COVID
There has been no announcement of the Covid-19 outbreak by Police Commissioner Earla Harewood-Christopher, National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds or Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh.
