Covid19 not stopping overseas medical treatment for children
Dr Varma Deyalsingh
DESPITE the challenges posed by the covid19 pandemic, the Children s Life Fund Authority is doing its best to ensure that children who need urgent medical care overseas are able to get it.
So said authority chair Dr Diane Alexander and director Karen Seebaran-Blondet to members of the Local Authorities, Service Commissions and Statutory Authorities joint select committee (JSC) during a virtual meeting on Wednesday.
Seebaran-Blondet said 11 children were sent overseas for medical care in 2020, and four have gone overseas this year. Air ambulance services were used in all of these cases.
Dr. Varma Deyalsingh -
Dr Varma Deyalsingh, chair of the joint select committee (JSC) on Local Authorities, Service Commissions and Statutory Authorities, asked the Children s Life Fund Authority (CLFA) what it was doing to prevent fraud or any other type of corruption within its ranks.
Deyalsingh put this question to authority officials during a virtual meeting the JSC had with them on Wednesday.
He said the Health Ministry gave the committee information on May 3 about a legal matter concerning an alleged misappropriation of funds by a former CLFA employee in 2014.
He added this matter is public knowledge and many people were disappointed about it.