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Health Ministry adds 110 beds to parallel healthcare system
Point Fortin Hospital. Photo by Marvin Hamilton
THE Health Ministry has added 110 more beds to its parallel healthcare system, bringing the total number of beds to 662.
In addition, it has launched a fourth level of care at the hospitals, called halfway houses, to treat recovering covid19 patients.
Principal medical officer of institutions Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards announced this at the ministry s virtual press conference on Monday.
Abdool-Richards said this country s rolling seven-day average of covid19 cases is now at 300, and that 15 of every 100 patients are requiring hospitalisation.
She said of the three main levels of care (ward-level, Intensive Care Unit , High Dependency Unit), Our major need or demand is in the ward-level beds.
Vaccination goes smoothly at UTT Chaguanas
University of Trinidad and Tobago Campus, Chaguanas - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
The rollout at the North Central Regional Health Authority s mass vaccination site at UTT, Monroe Road, went smoothly on Monday.
NCRHA CEO Davlin Thomas said at least 1,000 people were expected to be vaccinated by the end of the day.
Thomas said while the site was being used to vaccinate people with appointments, walk-ins had been accommodated up to 10 am.
“We engaged an appointments system on the weekend as soon as the minister announced it. During the morning period, we were overwhelmed with a lot of people who came in without appointments, possibly because they heard about it. We would have assimilated as many as we could that didn t have appointments or would have missed or had appointments cancelled previously; but for us to be able to finish the day, and when we looked at the trajectory, we need to stick to appointments now.”
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LeRoy Clarke exhibition dedicated to Haitian people
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Neil Parsanlal, chairman, Nalis board, left; Adaeze Clarke, daughter of master artist LeRoy Clarke; and Paula Greene, executive director (Ag), Nalis. -
AN exhibition of the works of master artist LeRoy Clarke titled The Eye Hayti… Cries… Everywhere, is ongoing at the Heritage Library, Port of Spain.
A media release from Nalis quotes Clarke as saying the collection “is a dedication to the Haitian people…whose courage is unassailable in the struggle to preserve humanity in fulfilling their destiny.”
At the opening of the exhibition last month, Neil Parsanlal, chairman of the board of Nalis, said the drawings should jolt people out of the pandemic of apathy.for which no vaccine other than determined action can cure.