NCRHA meets to discuss transferred doctors today apology
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stories by Gail Alexander
The board of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) will meet today to discuss a call by 11 doctors for the reinstatement of and an apology to four senior doctors who were recently transferred from the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility.
The board’s meeting this morning will examine a call made by the 11 senior medical practitioners, who’ve insisted the board immediately do a probe into why the four senior specialist doctors were removed from the Couva Hospital recently.
“[…] We have taken the decision to reach out to the board as we believe this is an issue of singular importance. Firstly, it involves the removal of the most experienced physicians in our country
Prof Courtenay Bartholomew.
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Prof Courtenay Bartholomew died on Friday night at age 89.
Bartholomew was a physician, scientist and author who impacted the medical field extending beyond T&T’s shores as he diagnosed the first case of Aids in the English-speaking Caribbean in 1983.
His death comes during the COVID-19 pandemic which has engulfed the world in sickness and death. The current pandemic comes 40 years after he was battling another pandemic the Aids pandemic which left the world similarly terrified.
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