SOME clinics at the Scarborough General Hospital in Tobago are being cancelled due to recent Covid-19 restrictions.
In a release on Tuesday, the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) stated that the changes to services will be in effect from Tuesday.
The TRHA stated that for the Department of Medicine subspecialty clinics including Dermatology, Haematology, Neurology will be cancelled. Medical outpatient clinic will be reduced. Warfarin Clinic on May 17 will be cancelled. Patients having issues can collect prescription scripts at the hospital or clinic area. Oncology, Cardiology and Nephrology clinics will continue.
For the Department of Surgery General Surgery and Orthopaedic clinics will be reduced. Elective surgeries will be cancelled.
The Paediatric outpatient clinic will be reduced.
In the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Gynaecology clinic patients (patients who are not pregnant) will be rescheduled. Routine ward reviews for Gynaecology patients (patients who are not pregnant) will be suspended and Antenatal clinics and ward review for pregnant patients will continue.
For the Department of Anaesthesia, elective lists will be reduced to urgent cases only, such as, cancer cases, orthopaedic traumas and caesarean sections. Visits to Intensive Care Unit patients will be reduced to one named next of kin, once daily. Doctors will provide family members with necessary updates frequently. Pre-op assessment clinics will be reduced to urgent cases only.
All non-acute and non-urgent cases Department of Ophthalmology department will be rescheduled. Urgent cases will be seen.
And in the Departments of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and Dietetics, all outpatient clinic services will be reduced, the TRHA stated.
