Residential Association head: Elderly in homes may get covid19 on hospital, clinic visits
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There is a possibility that covid19 entered homes for the elderly through the public health system.
Caroline Ruiz, president of the TT Residential Care Association, said cases of covid19 started popping up at homes for the aged in April.
“Almost every homeowner we spoke to concerning covid said they could not think how covid19 entered the home, but they noted that a client got sick and had to go for hospital care, or to a clinic.”
She admitted that in a few cases, covid19 entered the homes through staff members. However, in most cases, the staff were negative while the residents were not, leading the association members to suspect the clients were exposed to the virus at health care facilities.
Activist, PoS mayor tackle how to help the homeless
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The homeless bed down on the pavement in front of Royal Bank, Independence Square, Port of Spain during the curfew hours on June 19. The socially displaced are not arrested for breach of the curfew because they have no where to go. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton
A date for the opening of a drop-in shelter for the homeless on the ground floor of the Centre for Socially Displaced Persons at the Riverside Plaza car park, Port of Spain, is yet to be established.
However, Port of Spain mayor, Joel Martinez, expects work to begin soon after the Homeless Assistance Office, to be located in the same space, is completed by the NGO’s founder, Anthony Salloum.
Permanent shelter for Port of Spain homeless soon Mayor Joel Martinez - Photo by Sureash Cholai
Port of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez, along with the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services, has made a commitment to establish a permanent home for the socially displaced in Port of Spain.
“It s about time and we have been saying for too long, We can t do anything with the homeless. But we can do something and we are making an effort,” Martinez told the media after receiving the keys to the temporary homeless shelter beneath the Riverside Carpark, South Quay, on Wednesday morning.
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Social Development outreach continues in Point Fortin
Social Development Minister Donna Cox
Photo source: Ministry of Social Development
Minister of Social Development and Family Services Donna Cox visited Point Fortin on Monday, when she held several meetings and visits to various stakeholders in the area.
In a release, the ministry said Cox was accompanied by permanent secretaries Jacinta Bailey-Sobers, Sheila Seecharan, and deputy permanent secretary Vijay Gangapersad.
They met with Point Fortin MP Kennedy Richards Jr at Techier Road and Point Fortin Mayor Saleema Thomas at the borough corporation’s headquarters in Mahaica.
The meeting with Richards was “to discuss matters of mutual interest in an efforts, to ensure that no one is left behind.”