THE Minister of Health the Honorable Terrance Deyalsingh should take advice from more experienced people and qualified doctors rather than what he’s currently doing.
Minister Deyalsingh has no clinical experience in anything to be leading this country’s fight against Covid-19.
He is utterly inept and cannot realise he has put in place the wrong team and advisors around him. What he needs is senior, experienced medical and nursing personnel who are fully qualified and who could give him proper advice. He seems to have none and still, he goes down his merry way making up ridiculous rules and giving absurd advice to citizens. While the number continues to grow we have surpassed 3,400 deaths since Covid-19 has hit us on March 11, 2020.
The WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March of 2020, before that we saw a designation of declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 which was nowhere close to Covid-19 figures.
Since then there has been one blunder after another giving us an appalling track record by Minister Deyalsingh. We have one of the highest Covid-19 deaths and infection rates per capita worldwide and now with the added threats of the Delta and Omicron variants, it seems we may never see the end of this pandemic.
Trinidad and Tobago is now similar to other countries where the Omicron variant is the dominant one. It’s now in community spread and the dominant strain in this country. But there is another issue that seems to have gotten lost in the constant flux and chaos under his management, while our family members die, we never get to see them once they enter the state-controlled Covid-19 designated hospitals.
It is like a death sentence once citizens enter these facilities where their loved ones never see them again. A couple of prominent private hospitals which have long waiting lists to enter and charge tens of thousands of dollars a night, have done a humane thing and implemented a system where their loved ones can visit patients if they wear full PPE and adhere to the guidelines.
Many countries around the world have allowed loved ones to visit their hospitalised family or friends for months now. However, the callous and heartless Minister of Health does not allow such compassion. The issue of some patients needing hospitalisation for Covid care will not disappear in the near future or for years to come. Why can’t we be compassionate and allow visitors in a controlled setting to see their loved ones? It may be the last time you ever see them because of the total mismanagement of the parallel health care system.
Families who have sick loved ones can even be asked to bring their own PPE so as not to add further cost burden to the hospital’s budget. How can he not see this with all his advisers? It was stated by the Minister of Finance that over $5 billion had been spent on Covid relief as of August 15, 2021, including the cost of vaccines.
Five billion dollars and we don’t even have 500 beds in ICU. Where was the money really spent, Mr Deyalsingh?
We continue to look for answers but they never come and while we suffer, we can’t help but see the minister living the high life with his cohorts.
This must stop!
Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of NP. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.
Deyalsingh Needs Senior Advisors
THE Minister of Health the Honorable Terrance Deyalsingh should take advice from more experienced people and qualified doctors rather than what he’s currently doing.
Minister Deyalsingh has no clinical experience in anything to be leading this country’s fight against Covid-19.
He is utterly inept and cannot realise he has put in place the wrong team and advisors around him. What he needs is senior, experienced medical and nursing personnel who are fully qualified and who could give him proper advice. He seems to have none and still, he goes down his merry way making up ridiculous rules and giving absurd advice to citizens. While the number continues to grow we have surpassed 3,400 deaths since Covid-19 has hit us on March 11, 2020.
The WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March of 2020, before that we saw a designation of declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 which was nowhere close to Covid-19 figures.
Since then there has been one blunder after another giving us an appalling track record by Minister Deyalsingh. We have one of the highest Covid-19 deaths and infection rates per capita worldwide and now with the added threats of the Delta and Omicron variants, it seems we may never see the end of this pandemic.
Trinidad and Tobago is now similar to other countries where the Omicron variant is the dominant one. It’s now in community spread and the dominant strain in this country. But there is another issue that seems to have gotten lost in the constant flux and chaos under his management, while our family members die, we never get to see them once they enter the state-controlled Covid-19 designated hospitals.
It is like a death sentence once citizens enter these facilities where their loved ones never see them again. A couple of prominent private hospitals which have long waiting lists to enter and charge tens of thousands of dollars a night, have done a humane thing and implemented a system where their loved ones can visit patients if they wear full PPE and adhere to the guidelines.
Many countries around the world have allowed loved ones to visit their hospitalised family or friends for months now. However, the callous and heartless Minister of Health does not allow such compassion. The issue of some patients needing hospitalisation for Covid care will not disappear in the near future or for years to come. Why can’t we be compassionate and allow visitors in a controlled setting to see their loved ones? It may be the last time you ever see them because of the total mismanagement of the parallel health care system.
Families who have sick loved ones can even be asked to bring their own PPE so as not to add further cost burden to the hospital’s budget. How can he not see this with all his advisers? It was stated by the Minister of Finance that over $5 billion had been spent on Covid relief as of August 15, 2021, including the cost of vaccines.
Five billion dollars and we don’t even have 500 beds in ICU. Where was the money really spent, Mr Deyalsingh?
We continue to look for answers but they never come and while we suffer, we can’t help but see the minister living the high life with his cohorts.
This must stop!
Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of NP. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.