TRHA doctor afraid of needles but takes covid19 vaccine
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Dr Ian Sammy, head, Accident and Emergency Department, Scarborough General Hospital receives the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from Nurse Beryl Samuel-Gray, District Health Visitor, on Saturday. PHOTO COURTESY DIVISION OF HEALTH -
Dr Ian Sammy, head of the Accident and Emergency Department, Scarborough General Hospital, says he experienced chills – a common side effect – for two nights after taking the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid19 vaccine on Saturday.
Sammy was among a group of 34 frontline health workers who received the first doses of the vaccine in Tobago. The vaccines were among 2,000 doses which were donated to TT by Barbados.
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Onika Charles injured her foot during training to become a fire officer in Tobago.
When 26-year-old Onika Charles of Crown Point began training to become of a firefighter with the T&T Fire Service (TTFS) in 2019, she never imagined that she would spend the next 20 months experiencing constant pain, neglect, mounting debt, and loss.
Onika claimed after being injured at the TTFS dormitory, what she termed as negligence by the doctors at the Scarborough General Hospital has now placed her in constant pain, from a wound that has never healed due to an infection. Charles said she now requires specialist surgery to save her foot, yet pleas for assistance from authorities in Tobago have all fallen on deaf ears.