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**The OFFICIAL: Trinidad and Tobago HEALTH SECTOR Thread**

Postby Ѵ∑ŤЄЃλЙ™ » January 28th, 2014, 9:23 am

San Fernando Teaching Hospital to open February 6

Story Created: Jan 27, 2014 at 9:28 PM ECT
Story Updated: Jan 27, 2014 at 11:20 PM ECT


THE San Fernando Teaching Hospital will finally be opened to the public on February 6.

Chairman of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA), Dr Lackram Bodoe, made the announcement yesterday but said only the outpatients’ clinics will be operational until further notice.
The San Fernando Teaching Hospital, located at Chancery Lane, is an extension of the San Fernando General Hospital.

The two buildings are linked by an aerial bridge.
Last month, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar officially handed over the multi-storey building, once dubbed the Chancery Lane Complex, to the Ministry of Health.

Bodoe said the moving across from the old hospital into the new would have been done in phases with the outpatients clinics being the first to move.
These include specialties such as maternity and child health, paediatrics, medical, general surgery, diagnostics clinic, urology, neurosurgical and orthopaedics.

A pharmacy, ultrasound and x-ray services will also be available from February 6 at the new facility since these were required for the establishment of the outpatients clinics, Bodoe said.
Those clinics will be on levels four, five and six of the building.

Bodoe had said the space utilised by the outpatients clinics in the old hospital will be used to expand the Accident and Emergency department. He said patients will soon be moved to levels nine and 11, which house the paediatric wards, and eventually levels 14 to 17, which will accommodate adult patients.

Bodoe said there were challenges with the shift.
“We had to ensure that all is in place for the outpatient clinics. The main challenge is making sure the patients are informed about the change and ensuring the staff knows how to use the new equipment,” he said.

He said transferring hospitalised patients will be more difficult, but added, “We are confident and happy that we are going to start the outpatient services and the inpatient will commence soon after. February 6 will be a historic day for South and the country.”

The San Fernando Teaching Hospital is equipped with modern lecture halls, seminar rooms, laboratories and conference rooms, and rooms for outpatient clinics. There are also rooms for doctors on call. The hospital can accommodate 216 beds.

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Postby Ѵ∑ŤЄЃλЙ™ » January 28th, 2014, 9:38 am

Contract row may cause body pile-up at Forensic

Published: Tuesday, January 28, 2014

More bodies may pile up at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, after forensic pathologists Dr Valery Alexandrov and Dr Eslyn Mc Donald-Burris rejected employment contracts from the Ministry of Justice, saying they do not include medical coverage or allowances for continuing medical education.

Sources said since last year, both pathologists have been clamouring about the terms and conditions under which they worked. However, while Mc Donald-Burris has gone on leave since October, Alexandrov has opted to continue working without a contract with the hope that the ministry will soon provide proper medical coverage.

According to a contract obtained by the T&T Guardian, Alexandrov was offered a basic salary of $26,300 a month, a $2,700 transport allowance, a $10,000 duty allowance for extended work hours, an incentive allowance of $10,000, telephone allowance of $350 and a housing allowance of $5,000.

However, while he is entitled to personal leave, compassionate leave in the event of a family death and sick leave, there is no medical insurance coverage. Gratuity is paid on the basis of satisfactory completion of duties equivalent to 20 per cent of the gross salary earned.

During a meeting with the Ministry of Justice last Wednesday, both Alexandrov and Mc Donald-Burris were asked to submit proposals for a new contract. “Right now I am working without a contract and they have not renewed Dr Burris’s contract.

We met with the ministry officials and we raised the issue of proper health insurance,” Alexandrov said. He revealed that pathologists were exposed to dangerous decomposition gases from corpses as well as toxic chemicals such as acetone, formalin and carcinogens which cause lung, dental and ocular (eye) problems.

“The people in the ministry did not know we are exposed to these diseases which cause cancer. During the meeting director, human resources at Ministry of Justice Desmond Hamilton and senior human resource officer Joy Boodhoo were sitting with eyes open wide when we told them about the conditions under which we work. They said nobody ever gave them this information about us before,” Alexandrov said.

He added that the Forensic Science Centre had only five mortuary attendants, when ideally there should be ten. “The X-ray technician is exposed to radiation and we are working with dangerous substances like gunpowder residue and formalin (a substance used to preserve tissue from decomposing), which is ten per cent carcinogenic (cancer-causing). In every other part of the world medical insurance is provided,” Alexandrov said.
He added that all doctors registered with the Medical Board had to do continuous medical education, but no educational allowance is provided in the pathologists’ contract.

57 autopsies in ten days
Since the start of the new year, Alexandrov said he had done 57 autopsies in ten days. Since McDonald-Burris is not on duty, Alexandrov said work is shared with pathologist Dr Hughvon Des Vignes.

“Normally our average workload weekly is 20 to 25 bodies a week and this is higher than World Health Organization guidelines, which stipulate that a pathologist was supposed to do between 250 to 350 autopsies a year. Last year I did 1,026 autopsies,” Alexandrov said.
He explained that the Forensic Science Centre was operating below World Health Organization (WHO) standards.
Saying it was true that T&T could not match the salaries in the United States, Alexandrov said he hoped that proper standards for procedures could be developed before his tenure in T&T ends. He said while McDonald-Burris was working on the financial aspects of their contracts, he was working on the organisational, environmental and administrative clauses.

“I have documents from the European Union, which comprises 28 countries, and every country has a forensic service and a special commission to develop standards of procedures,” Alexandrov explained.

Asked why he was continuing to work without a contract, Alexandrov said his parents and most of his family were killed in the Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime during World War II.

“I sympathise with people when they lose their loved ones. How can I send them away when they sit waiting for hours to get the autopsy done,” Alexandrov said. He added that the planned new state-of-the-art forensic centre would not function effectively unless it was properly staffed with at least four pathologists and ten mortuary attendants.


Training coming for forensics
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Emmanuel George said he was unaware of the problems being faced by the pathologists at the centre. He said, however, that plans were afoot to build a modern facility and to train people in forensic sciences. Last year, $3.7 million was approved to upgrade the centre.

George referred further questions to Minister of Tertiary Education Fazal Karim, who said a masters in forensic science will be offered at the newly opened San Fernando Teaching Hospital from September.

“The Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI, St Augustine, is taking a proactive role in strengthening the criminal justice system, and bolstering the efforts of the Government in crime detection and eradication, through the master’s degree in forensic science,” Karim said.
“This programme is envisaged to be a multi-disciplinary professional programme which incorporates physical and biological sciences, criminal investigation, psychology and law to provide a comprehensive understanding, professionalism and a skilled approach to the evidentiary process in crime.” Karim said the University of Central Lancashire’s School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences would provide laboratories and teaching expertise to deliver the programme.

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Postby The_Honourable » September 7th, 2017, 8:56 pm

Pathologist walks off job

The already sluggish criminal justice system now has another hurdle to climb after the lone pathologist on duty downed his scalpel yesterday, saying he will not be working until there was an improvement in the operations of the Forensic Science Centre (FSC), St James.

Speaking with the media outside the FSC yesterday, Dr Valery Alexandrov said for the year he has already performed 310 autopsies, 156 of them being homicides and by international standards a pathologist that crosses 350 autopsies a year can be stripped of his ability to do his job through deficiency phase one.

Alexandrov said he was the only working pathologist for six weeks as his colleague, Dr Eslyn McDonald-Burris, was on vacation and Dr Hughvon des Vignes had not signed a renewal contract.

He complained that he was understaffed based on international standards which required one mortuary assistant for every 100 cases and so far there had been 1,200 cases done at the FSC for the year.

To date there are five attendants with three of them being women.

“This is a tough job lifting dead bodies and what not. There is a need for a legal mortuary attendant to handle all the legal documents, instead what we have is a radiologist and on the job trainees,” Alexandrov said.

The pathologist who has been working in T&T and by extension the Caribbean for the last seven years said that the leadership of the FSC was to be blamed for the “national catastrophe.”

He added that he has been clamouring for more staff, better equipment and round-the-clock availability of the refrigerators at FSC to store bodies, particularly homicides, to preserve evidence but those cries have fallen on deaf ears.

Yesterday Alexandrov told the relatives of seven men murdered over the weekend and other people who turned up for their autopsies that he was not performing any post mortems until further notice. Relatives, he said, were sympathetic to his plight and agreed with him.

Three women who spoke to the media after speaking with Alexandrov said the pathologist was right for demanding better working conditions and called on authorities to do something about it.

Other relatives were overheard saying that for an oil rich country such conditions should not be happening.

One man who came to support a friend who lost a loved one, asked about the Muslim rites of a swift burial, a sentiment also expressed by Alexandrov, a Jew.

Alexandrov said he was not being malicious towards the grieving relatives as having lost a son years ago during the US invasion of Iraq he could understand their plight.

“This is not a spontaneous revolt. Even in slavery a good slave master knows to give his slaves the tools needed to do the job,” Alexandrov said, adding that he had spoken to two former national security ministers but nothing has changed.

Alexandrov added that he was also owed gratuity for contracts long expired but have been given the run-around. He added that for the 142 working days of the year, there were 648 autopsies done at an average of five a day.

Asked about the Alexandrov’s concerns at a press conference yesterday at the National Security Ministry, Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon said the Government was in the process of recruiting more staff at the FSC.

He admitted that the field of forensic science was not an attractive one but scholarships would be provided and in the short-term there were plans to extend existing contracts and hire new skilled labour.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-08- ... -walks-job

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Postby The_Honourable » September 7th, 2017, 8:57 pm

Pathologist Dr Valerie Alexandrov is back on the job

Dr Valerie Alexandrov, pathologist at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, is back on the job.

On Tuesday, Dr. Alexandrov walked out of the building, complaining of being overworked.

Saying that he was frustrated, as he was the only pathologist on staff with two on the job trainees for assistance, Dr Alexandrov called for someone to be held responsible for the staff shortage at the centre.

Dr Alexandrov, who has been working at the Forensic Science Centre for the past six years, and working without a contract since 2012, said that he could no longer work under those conditions.

Today, speaking with the media, he revealed that meetings were held with the Minister of National Security, who assured that the situation would be addressed.

Mr Alexandrov noted that he will hold on for perhaps 6 months, to give the ministry the necessary time to screen and hire additional staff.

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Postby The_Honourable » September 7th, 2017, 8:58 pm

Alexandrov ready to quit

Forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov says he is ready to pack up and leave before his contract ends in 2019 because he is tired of the mismanagement at the Forensic Science Centre.

Alexandrov told the T&T Guardian he is “sick and tired” of what has been happening, particularly with Tobago autopsies. He said he had to fly to Tobago recently to perform three autopsies because the two other pathologists, Dr Eslyn McDonald-Burris is currently on vacation and Dr Hughvon Des Vignes has repeatedly refused to go to Tobago to do autopsies and instead asked for the bodies to be brought to Trinidad.

Alexandrov said twice before there were problems where families had to wait weeks before they could have closure because autopsies were not being done. Of the 20 autopsies done for the year so far in Tobago, 11 were done by him and the rest by McDonald-Burris, he said.

He said to make matters worse, there are only four mortuary attendants. He reiterated that it is international standard to have one attendant to every 100 cases and there is an average of 1200 cases annually.

“I am 70 years old and today I was handling bodies by myself. I am sick and tired, sick and tired,” he said.

“What is going on is a complete catastrophe. They spent $3.5 million on a facility that can’t be used because the draining was not done properly. Imagine the fluids that we deal with, blood and what not, cannot flow into the drains so there are stains on the floor.”

In August last year, Alexandrov staged a one man protest and refused to do any work for two days unless he was sufficiently staffed after working for six weeks straight.

Two weeks later three temporary employees were hired to assist the pathologists.

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Postby The_Honourable » September 7th, 2017, 8:59 pm

Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Valery Alexandrov says he intends to send in his resignation by the end of June.

The 70 year old said he spoke with the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security about his concerns last Friday, but it seems nothing is being done.

For some time now, Dr. Alexandrov has been complaining about the high number of autopsies he has to do on a daily basis and the lack of support staff.


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Postby The_Honourable » September 7th, 2017, 9:01 pm

Alexandrov complains of unfair treatment for Tobago autopsies

FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST Dr Valery Alexandrov says he will not be travelling to Tobago to conduct autopsies until he receives fair treatment from the State. Alexandrov and Dr Eslyn Mc Donald-Burris have been conducting autopsies in both islands but, with the latter’s contract ending today, it leaves Alexandrov and Dr Hughvon Des Vignes as the only pathologists in the country.

It is alleged that Des Vignes is not willing to go to Tobago to conduct autopsies.

Alexandrov yesterday described this situation as inhumane and antisocial.

“It’s a mess, it’s a catastrophe and I cannot get any explanation on what is going on except the absolutely universal stupidity, incompetence, total misunderstanding of what we are for and how we are doing things, that’s the problem of this country.

“Trinidad and Tobago is one country and the people in Tobago deserve the same quality of service in a timely fashion as Trinidad. I realise that something is happening between Des Vignes and the Scarborough Hospital so I offered to compromise. I agreed to take all the cases in Tobago but on the basis day for day.

If I agree to travel, Dr Des Vignes will take one of my days here in Trinidad. He refused so now there are two bodies in Tobago, who is supposed to finish the job? I want fair treatment, so I am not traveling (to Tobago) anymore.” He explained that he has received emergency calls from the Tobago Homicide police department, the Ministry of National Security and the Scarborough General Hospital about a buildup of bodies for over two weeks at the morgue with no one coming to conduct the autopsies while Mc Donald-Burris was on vacation.

He added that the length of time taken for an autopsy in Tobago can interfere with investigations.

“In the face of death, there is no such thing as mentality and culture. In many cases, especially when we are talking about homicide, the autopsy should be done as soon as possible. The autopsy is a very important part of the investigation, it does not solve crime but it gives clues. Delaying autopsies is a trauma for the families and a hindrance to investigations.” “Thank God the mortuary is state of art in Tobago so the body is kept in good condition but not indefinitely. It does not stop decaying, it slows it down. If we are talking about two weeks it is not so detrimental but we need to remember how the families feel. Keeping a body in a fridge for so long is not culture. Even the people who do not have to do anything with forensic would not intervene.” He recalled an instance where he spent two days doing autopsies in Tobago last year December.

He added that the issues began last year and to date he has not received an explanation as to why he is mostly called upon to conduct autopsies in Tobago.

Calls to pathologist Dr Hughvon Des Vignes went answered yesterday

Source: http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,244503.html

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Postby The_Honourable » September 7th, 2017, 9:04 pm

Pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov resigns

After today forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov will no longer be employed at the Forensic Science Centre.

With over a year service still to go Alexandrov resigned citing health reasons.

Alexandrov says he has high blood pressure and at 70-years-old is being subjected to manually lift bodies, some decomposed.

He gave his resignation with his last day effective August 31 but on the request of his seniors, he remained one week longer.

The National Security Ministry is attempting to finalize its contract with fellow pathologist Dr Eslyn Mcdonald-Burris by the end of next week. The Forensics Centre has three pathologists who work in a one in three-week roster.

On Monday, with 13 autopsies to be done and limited staff, Alexandrov was close to abandoning his job but with the intervention of the centre's director Arlene Lewis, the necessary assistance was found and nine of the autopsies were conducted.

Source: http://www2.cnc3.co.tt/press-release/pa ... ov-resigns

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Postby desifemlove » September 9th, 2017, 1:03 pm

i have no sympathy for him. he can get work in any other country, he just has to resign and move on.

as for healthcare in T&T, neither party gives a firetruck. it won't improve without changes in both investment and policies.

mistakes happen, and it's no surprise there are botches, since 99% of doctors are scum (most look to section people for liking world music, swearing, and seeing porn...). but then anybody who thinks throwing money alone will solve healthcare is a fool.

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Postby pugboy » September 9th, 2017, 1:17 pm

Something doh add up with this chap
He worser than the football coaches who get shuffled like a pack of cards and keep coming back

He have some strong tie to be here ?
He have a local wife or something here ?

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Postby Dizzy28 » September 9th, 2017, 1:25 pm

Maybe FSC should be placed under Health. Or at least it's pathology section.

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Postby DVSTT » September 9th, 2017, 1:54 pm

Pathologist and Forensic pathologist are two distinctly different designations.
Do we have another forensic pathologist?

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Postby desifemlove » September 10th, 2017, 6:50 am

Dizzy28 wrote:Maybe FSC should be placed under Health. Or at least it's pathology section.

are you smart enough to comprehend what the word pathology means?

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Postby The_Honourable » October 30th, 2017, 2:56 am

Cancer centre riddled with challenges

With work stalled on the National Oncology Centre (NOC) for the past year, chairman of the Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott) Noel Garcia says Government may have three options— terminate the contract, borrow a loan or scale down the size of the million- dollar project.

This was Garcia’s view as he weighed in on the project which has come to a grinding halt.

In 2003, former prime minister Patrick Manning promised to build the NOC at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex at Mt Hope which was supposed to transform the way cancer patients are treated.

Back then, it was estimated to cost $144 million, but its costs has skyrocketed significantly.

Fourteen years later, and after five administrations, Garcia said only 32 per cent of the project has been completed,.

Garcia admitted that nothing has happened on the centre “all of this year. And it seems it would go into the next fiscal year without nothing happening.”

The project has been put on hold after Cabinet queried if they were getting value for money.

In the coming months, Udecott would get some definite word as to what would happen with the project, Garcia said.

Garcia said he cannot act unilaterally, but have to wait on Cabinet’s decision.

In addition to this, Garcia said things that go to Cabinet are referred to “FNGP and they are the ones who would question a number of things and raise a number of issues.”

He said while the project has been put on hold, he would have liked “things to go much quicker. but I am not FNGP (Finance and General Purpose Committee) I am not the Cabinet. I am subject to policy directions. I just have to accept the things I cannot change.”

Asked if Government had allocated money in this fiscal package for the project, Garcia said “I think so. I think not the kind of money that is required. I think it is a holding action really because I suspect if they are going forward with the Oncology Centre we probably may have to look for some kind of loan financing to go forward because it is a lot of money. I think the problem is the cost.”

From the offset, Garcia said the project has been riddled with challenges.

After the first contractor abandoned the job, Garcia said the architect experienced bankruptcy.

“Then it was discovered that the building was not conforming to the new seismic codes and had to be redesigned. So it is really a project that has had all kinds of challenges and probably needs a bush bath.”

The project is currently being undertaken by French contractor Bouygues Batiment T&T Construction Company.

In 2016, Garcia estimated the project’s cost at $700 million.

“The contractor is not working. They are virtually marking time for almost a year. You just can’t have the contractor in abeyance. So is either the Government terminate the contract or they decide to go forward with the contract or decide to go with a scaled down version of the contract. You just cannot be saying anything,” Garcia said.

Garcia did not agree with the centre being scaled down, stating that cancer is the leading cause of deaths in T&T.

“In Trinidad it is of epidemic proportions…from stomach cancer to liver cancer and colon. This would bring a relief to a number of people who would otherwise would not be able to get that level of sophisticated treatment. It would not cure cancer, but it would certainly afford people the opportunity to be treated.”

He said the most Bouygues can do was sue the State for standby charges.

“The contractor has that option, but I don’t know if they would want to excise it. In fairness to them they have reduced their workforce to a minimum. I don’t know if it would be worth their while to sue.”

The NOC, Garcia explained was designed with cutting edge technology, which would have taken up 55 per cent of the project’s overall cost.

“That was one of the reasons they were spending all of this money to build this state-of-the-art centre. But it has been bugged down.”

If the project gets restarted now, Garcia said the centre can be completed by early 2019.

Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said the project is before Cabinet.

“I can’t say anything to jeopardize Cabinet’s consideration,” Deyalsingh said.

Source: http://guardian.co.tt/news/2017-10-29/c ... challenges

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Postby The_Honourable » January 2nd, 2020, 1:19 pm

Then this happened:

Visiting doctor’s privileges suspended

Fallout from Facebook post


The South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has suspended the privileges of a visiting doctor while it conducts an investigation over a possible breach of confidentiality.

In a statement on Tuesday, the SWRHA said it was concerned about an online social media post by a visiting, foreign-based medical professional regarding the internal operations and institutional capacity at the San Fernando General Hospital.

The post, which has since been deleted, recounted the experience of a visiting doctor at the hospital.

The SWRHA said its management was "gravely concerned of the post’s content and any possible breaches of patient confidentiality."

The statement also said an internal investigation has been launched to determine the appropriate and necessary course of action. "Additionally, due to possible breaches of conventional procedures, the SWRHA will suspend the privileges of the visiting medical professional while the investigation is underway.

"The SWRHA maintains and protects the confidential information of all patients and reiterates our staff commitment to the provision of excellent health care," the statement said.

Source: https://newsday.co.tt/2020/01/01/visiti ... suspended/

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Postby abbow » January 2nd, 2020, 1:26 pm

what was the budget allocation to health again???

throw all the money at it, once they are mismanaging it, everything will go downhill...

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Postby Redman » January 2nd, 2020, 1:30 pm

The_Honourable wrote:Then this happened:

Visiting doctor’s privileges suspended

Fallout from Facebook post


The South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has suspended the privileges of a visiting doctor while it conducts an investigation over a possible breach of confidentiality.

In a statement on Tuesday, the SWRHA said it was concerned about an online social media post by a visiting, foreign-based medical professional regarding the internal operations and institutional capacity at the San Fernando General Hospital.

The post, which has since been deleted, recounted the experience of a visiting doctor at the hospital.

The SWRHA said its management was "gravely concerned of the post’s content and any possible breaches of patient confidentiality."

The statement also said an internal investigation has been launched to determine the appropriate and necessary course of action. "Additionally, due to possible breaches of conventional procedures, the SWRHA will suspend the privileges of the visiting medical professional while the investigation is underway.

"The SWRHA maintains and protects the confidential information of all patients and reiterates our staff commitment to the provision of excellent health care," the statement said.

Source: https://newsday.co.tt/2020/01/01/visiti ... suspended/


Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

He will take some lix but if it is the truth then we should know....we pay for that.

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Postby FrankChag » January 2nd, 2020, 1:42 pm

I really don't know how poor ppl without insurance surviving in this country

then again, maybe that's the point
how many of those dr's have a private practice,,,, or their own "clinic"/hospital

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Postby Rovin » January 2nd, 2020, 1:57 pm

The South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has suspended the privileges of a visiting doctor while it conducts an investigation over a possible breach of confidentiality.


what confidentiality did he break ? , d man just simply stated his working experience here , if it made ppl feel shame then who fault is dat ?


in b4 unc get blame for this too .....

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Postby VexXx Dogg » January 2nd, 2020, 2:00 pm

Redman wrote:
The_Honourable wrote:Then this happened:

Visiting doctor’s privileges suspended

Fallout from Facebook post


The South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has suspended the privileges of a visiting doctor while it conducts an investigation over a possible breach of confidentiality.

In a statement on Tuesday, the SWRHA said it was concerned about an online social media post by a visiting, foreign-based medical professional regarding the internal operations and institutional capacity at the San Fernando General Hospital.

The post, which has since been deleted, recounted the experience of a visiting doctor at the hospital.

The SWRHA said its management was "gravely concerned of the post’s content and any possible breaches of patient confidentiality."

The statement also said an internal investigation has been launched to determine the appropriate and necessary course of action. "Additionally, due to possible breaches of conventional procedures, the SWRHA will suspend the privileges of the visiting medical professional while the investigation is underway.

"The SWRHA maintains and protects the confidential information of all patients and reiterates our staff commitment to the provision of excellent health care," the statement said.

Source: https://newsday.co.tt/2020/01/01/visiti ... suspended/


Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

He will take some lix but if it is the truth then we should know....we pay for that.



I agree. Glad he buss the mark.
No skin off his back.

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Postby maj. tom » January 2nd, 2020, 2:07 pm

Nothing will happen. This going on for half a century, what this foreign doctors says will make no difference. Everyone knows how appalling the conditions are for both the staff and patients. The Government has had 50 years to build more hospitals and improve the conditions for the south land population and never did.

The doctor will leave and go back to USA and this will make no difference at the end of the day. I mean, the first reaction by the officials was to cover it up and knee-jerk reprimand the visiting doctor. :|

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Postby Redman » January 2nd, 2020, 2:52 pm

Well they ban him from coming back into the public health system.
I’m sure he is distraught.


So why are the local doctors so quiet.?

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Postby maj. tom » January 2nd, 2020, 4:40 pm

Because look at the response to someone foreign. Anyone local will get blacklisted by the Ministry and they already working like dog in pigsty conditions. Plus nobody listens to what local doctors want or need for their profession. It always "eh have no money" when it comes to the public health sector in this country. What doctors should/would do? Not work? strike? protest? And then who suffers and then who gets villainized by the public? For something totally out of their control and fault. So much mismanagement by the higher authorities.

This is a problem of Government mismanagement and the bigger picture of neglect of a large sector of the population since Independence. One example is look how long the Southern half of Trinidad had to wait for a highway and a decent road in south since 1962 that contains half the population of the country. They have had no access to basic infrastructure that a developing country requires, and one must note the political bias against them. 600, 000 people and only 600 beds. They don't even have proper roads to get to the hospital.

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Re: **The OFFICIAL: Trinidad and Tobago HEALTH SECTOR Thread**

Postby pugboy » January 2nd, 2020, 4:47 pm

because they benefit from parallel health systems

public for their basic salary which they declare for taxes
private for the real money they making untaxed

and well of course most surgeons got their guinea pig butchering skills in the public system

Redman wrote:Well they ban him from coming back into the public health system.
I’m sure he is distraught.


So why are the local doctors so quiet.?

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Postby The_Honourable » January 2nd, 2020, 8:22 pm

Ex-chairman: 'SWRHA shooting the messenger'

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Former chairman of the South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) Dr Lackram Bodoe is accusing officials of "shooting the messenger" by suspending the privileges of a visiting doctor.

This was an attempt to "hide the many unsafe and high-risk practices that seem to have become the norm at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH), with patients paying the ultimate price," Bodoe said.

In a media release on Thursday, Bodoe said there are many questions to be answered over the suspension.

He asked,"Why (were) the practising privileges of the doctor suspended after he spoke of the many problems that he encountered at the San Fernando General Hospital? Is it that the SWRHA is attempting to silence him in the hope that the issues he highlighted are not brought to light?"

On Tuesday in a media release the SWRHA announced the suspension as it investigates a possible breach of confidentiality. It referred to a recently deleted social media post by the foreign-based doctor commenting on the operations and institutional capacity at the SFGH.

Bodoe said the organisation must investigate the revelations made, "instead of trying to silence him."

The former chairman said, "It is noted that whilst there are were only six Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds available at the SFGH, provisions were made years ago at the Couva Children’s Hospital for additional adults and paediatric ICU beds.

"Why are these ICU and other beds at the Couva Children's Hospital are not being utilised for the benefit of sick and ailing citizens?"

The visiting neurosurgeon from Florida, Bodoe said, highlighted several issues. One relates to "a very backward practice" of operating-room staff not wearing face masks while doing surgery. Another was several staff members not showing up for work on Christmas Day.

The doctor also spoke of aflood of patients who had been waiting for weeks and months for urgent surgery for life-threatening conditions such as spinal-cord injuries and brain tumours, Bodoe said.

"His observation that ‘patients simply being left to die, become paralysed and go blind from treatable diseases as a result of negligence’ is frightening and demands urgent attention," Bodoe said.

The SWRHA, under the watch of Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, has changed CEO four times in the past four years, he said.

"One has to wonder whether these issues are arising because of poor governance and lack of oversight at the level of the board and senior management of the SWRHA?"

He called on the minister to investigate all the complaints urgently "instead of allowing the SWRHA board to sweep this complaint under the carpet at the risk of the well-being of the public."

Source: http://newsday.co.tt/2020/01/02/ex-chai ... -messenger

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Postby De Dragon » January 2nd, 2020, 9:19 pm

Don't worry, War on Salt Deyalsingh says it is Gopeesingh fault for being "vaccine hesitant". The humongous kant couldn't bring himself to express any remorse for the people who died from the flu, but could lay blame at the Opposition. All this while breathing he stink PNM breath on the people and dem newborn babies.

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Postby ProtonPowder » January 2nd, 2020, 9:30 pm

me eh wah no injeckshan because it does hot up me arm an gimme fevah

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Re: **The OFFICIAL: Trinidad and Tobago HEALTH SECTOR Thread**

Postby De Dragon » January 2nd, 2020, 9:41 pm

We have not one, but two full page adds on today's Guardian touting the new financial/tax measures from the Budget to go into effect this year, but MoH can't do one for flu vaccination guidelines? To answer my own question, I guess that would rob kants like Deyalsingh and the PNM mob of their scapegoat.

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