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‘We’ve adapted, innovated, and expanded our capacities!’ How T&T healthcare aims to push on from Covid-19
“[…] The overarching goal is to increase capacity not just in response to the pandemic, but to develop and improve our medical capacity to treat with respiratory diseases, on a whole…”
In the following press statement, North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) CEO Davlin Thomas notes the changes made to the local healthcare system in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic post-Covid wellness clinics, respiratory physiotherapy services, and a Patient Liaison Unit and which improvements are here to stay:
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“[…] Notwithstanding the atrocious working conditions and other obstacles, our public healthcare workers have done yeoman’s service in T&T’s greatest time of medical need. They are not to be blamed for the badly broken public health system in which they work…
“[…] for T&T, [the Covid-19 vaccine] also gives the Rowley government the opportunity to finally focus on correcting the many shortfalls and inefficiencies of our seriously damaged public health sector…”
The following media statement was issued by former education minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh who says he contracted Covid-19 in August:
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The population of primary school pupils in Cross River State has dropped as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and #EndSARS protests as most schools operate without safety protocols.
The Guardian observed that most schools opened in October, but they did not resume with their normal population before COVID-19 and in some cases. As schools resumed in August, Commissioner for Health and Chairman, COVID-19 Response Team, Dr. Beta Edu, promised that they would be provided with automatic disinfected pass and that her team would work with school heads on Infection Prevention Control (IPC) protocols.
In a recent field visit following a virtual meeting with journalists titled: “COVID-19: Education In The Recovery Process, The Role Of The Media,” organised by UNICEF, it was discovered that most of the primary schools operate without physical distancing, while most of the children failed to wear face mask.