Page 10 - Smith Robert News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Pharmacies, patients reveal shortage of critical asthma drugs by Carisa Lee There is a short­age of Asth­ma drugs at phar­ma­cies in the coun­try. Res­pi­ra­to­ry so­lu­tions such as Ven­tolin, Atro­vent and oth­ers have been out of stock at drug­stores for weeks, in some in­stances months, as own­ers can­not source it from the dis­trib­u­tors. “A lot of peo­ple ask­ing for it,” one phar­ma­cist in East Trinidad said yes­ter­day. When con­tact­ed, one of the dis­trib­u­tors, Smith Robert­son & Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, did not have so­lu­tions. They...

CDAP list to help Ministry determine who need vaccines by Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago Gail Alexan­der The Health Min­istry will be us­ing the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) data­base as well as sys­tems in hos­pi­tals and clin­ics at­tend­ed by pa­tients with non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs) to iden­ti­fy who are in line for the COVID vac­cine. Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh in­di­cat­ed this in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day while re­ply­ing to Op­po­si­tion queries on groups iden­ti­fied to get the vac­cines.