PRIME MINISTER Dr Keith Rowley has taken his third dose of the Sinopharm vaccine on Friday.
A post on the Office of the Prime Minister Facebook page showed manager of the Health Ministry’s expanded immunization programme nurse Grace Sookchand giving Dr Rowley the injection on Friday.
The Ministry of Health has stated that third doses will be administered to the elderly and moderately and severely immunocompromised patients.
Dr Rowley holds a press conference at 2.30 pm today to update the country on Covid-19.
Meanwhile Executive Director of the Citizens Union of Trinidad and Tobago (CUTT) Phillip Edward Alexander has a number of questions for the prime minister.
In a release on Saturday, Alexander asked:
- How many ICU trained nurses do we have?
- How long does it take to train a regular nurse to operate ICU equipment?
- The additional 52 ICU beds we suddenly got, where did they come from?
- Were new nurses trained?
- You say we are one of the few countries fortunate to have a parallel system, was this the original system partitioned into two?
- Or were more wards, beds and staff added to the pre-Covid bedstock?
- If so, how many new beds, wards and staff were added, and where?
- How many ambulances are the ambulance company contracted to provide?
- How many are actually being provided?
- How do we pay for this service, a flat fee based on the contract?
- Or does it fluctuate based on the number of ambulances provided and the number of calls?
- Have there been an increase or decrease in the number of ambulances since the pandemic began?
- How long after the return of the unquarantined Miami carnival revellers did the new spike begin?
- Was it in fact fourteen days?
- If the SOE no longer serves a purpose, why not cancel it today?
- If the water parks are open, on what science is the closure of the beaches based?
- And finally, if up to the report from the finance ministry we had no increase in either ICU beds, staff or ambulances, on what was the extra five billion dollars spent?
