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THREE hospitals are to benefit from multi-million-dollar renovations and upgrades to improve operations of the facilities. Renovations costing $34 million are to be carried out at the San Fernando General

President general of the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roger has once again highlighted the plight of former Petrotrin workers (retirees and retrenched) who are "suffering" owing to the company's closure. On Wednesday, Roget renewed called for Government to resolve all outstanding issues. Speaking to the affected people at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre, Roget recalled

“[…] When you see tents set up [outside hospitals] is when your health system is overwhelmed, but we were using tents from day one! These billion dollar facilities we have and they are not designe

Hospital beds running out for covid19 patients Bed spaces at hospitals treating covid19 patients is running out. According to Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards, principal medical officer in charge of institutions, on Saturday, overall hospital capacity in the parallel health care system was 64 per cent. During a press conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s on Saturday afternoon, she said 73 per cent of the beds in Trinidad were full, as were 25 per cent in Tobago. Caura hospital was at 78 pe...

Deyalsingh on covid19 restrictions: Keep Mum alive for 2022 Terrence Deyalsingh - HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh implored people to protect their loved ones from covid19 infection by not congregating for Mothers Day on Sunday, addressing a briefing at the Diplomatic Centre, St Anns on Friday. "If we treat Mothers Day as another excuse to gather at the homes of our mothers, we may not have those mothers for Mothers Day 2022. "If you love your mother, Mothers Day 2021 is the mothers day whe...

PDP deputy: Jamaica travel ban an eye-opener PDP deputy leader Farley Augustine - Assembly Legislature THA Assemblyman Farley Augustine is calling on all leaders throughout Trinidad and Tobago to use their influence to remind people about the absolute need to be very careful as covid19 infections soar. At a virtual news conference on Thursday, Augustine said the covid19 situation is “nowhere where we hope we should be as a country.” Last week, Health Secretary Tracy Davidson-Celestine sai...

Frontline healthcare workers receive first doses of Covid-19 vaccine The Ministry of Health will begin its rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine today, Wednesday 17 February. First in line for the vaccine are frontline healthcare workers at the Couva Hospital and Training Facility. Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh announced the start of the rollout, using the 2,000 doses received from Barbados, at the Ministry of Health’s virtual media conference. Photo: Nurse Keisha Gomes ...

Sibratee Boodram in better days When Sibratee Boodram walked into the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) last September, the 63-year-old Penal mother of four was strong and able to care for herself and her family. Now four months after a failed surgery to excise a pituitary adenoma—slow-growing tumour—she cannot walk and falls unconscious regularly. Doctors have scheduled surgeries to remove the brain tumour four times but cancelled each time. “I am pleading. Somebody, please save my ...