Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh (centre) poses with healthcare workers at the Couva Medical and Multi-training Facility.
Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh visited the Couva Medical and Multi-training Facility today to bring some much-needed Christmas cheer to frontline healthcare workers.
Deyalsingh spent some time with the workers who were tending to COVID-19 patients despite the holiday.
He was accompanied by North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) Chairman Steve De Las, CEO Davlin Thomas and other members of NCRHA Executive Management team.
Deyalsingh commended and thanked the doctors and nurses on duty for their “unwavering commitment, sacrifice and a high degree of professionalism demonstrated in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Reana James gave birth to the first Christmas baby at 12.15 a.m.
Weighing in 3.2 kilogrammes, James gave birth to a baby girl she named Julianna.
The baby was delivered by Dr Corridon and Dr Sobers at the Sangre Grande Hospital.
Arti Deokaran gave birth at the San Fernando hospital to the second baby on Christmas Day at 12.58 a.m.
Weighing 3.16 kilogrammes, Deokaran named her daughter Arya Dabideen.
The baby was delivered by Dr Petollokhman.
Sangre Grande Hospital also recorded the third birth on Christmas Day at 1.02 a.m. when Meenadaye Sookdeo delivered a baby boy.
The infant weighed 2.53 kilogrammes.
Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh paid a special Christmas courtesy call to the Covid-19 frontline medical staff at the Couva Medical and Multi-Training Facility on duty yesterday and away from their families and loved ones on Christmas day.
For the past nine years, Neeranjan Singh has been getting sicker as his heart slowly shuts down.
He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2011 after suffering from a heart attack.
At only 50 years old, Singh takes 22 tablets and insulin twice a day in his fight for survival.
In 2017, the last time he was able to afford a visit to a private cardiologist, Singh was told his heart was functioning at 35 per cent.
In an interview at his Tunapuna home yesterday, Singh said he has been trying in vain to get another echocardiogram at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMS). He was given an appointment for yesterday back in 2019 but as he eagerly awaited his chance to see a doctor, his wife Dulari got a call from the hospital last Friday.
Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh MP.
In anticipation of receiving its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines in the first quarter of 2021, local health authorities are busy preparing facilities for its storage and distribution.
And while Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has not able to say exactly which vaccine T&T will be receiving or the costs, he assured storage locations are being readied ahead of time.
Speaking during the Ministry of Health’s media briefing on Saturday, he said three sub-zero freezers had already been identified within the country which could be used to store the Pfizer vaccine which has to be kept at -72 degrees celsius.
With some countries having started to administer the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to their citizens, comes the advisory that anyone coming into Trinidad and Tobago who have received this vaccine will still be required to produce a negative PCR test before entering the country.
This decision was announced by Minister of Health, Terrance Deyalsingh, who spoke at a COVID-19 news conference on Saturday. He said that this policy was decided after conversations with regional and international scientific bodies.
âThe position we have come up with based on the current available science, everything we say this morning is based on current evidence, things can change as more data and evidence comes in. The position is that we are still going to require anyone coming into Trinidad and Tobago to still provide us with a PCR test,â he said.