Khan hits Deyalsingh ‘non-issue’

In a message posted on YouTube, Khan not only defended his share ownership at St Augustine Private Hospital (SAPH) he reiterated his belief that the attack by Deyalsingh was inspired by someone within the Opposition United National Congress, of which Khan is a member.

“The Minister of Health indicated that I had 250,000 shares in St Augustine Private hospital which I’ve had since 1999. I’ve always declared that to the In tegrity Commission,” Khan said adding, “It’s unfortunate that it was used to say that I should not be signing licenses as an administrative duty as a Minister for hospitals in this country.” He continued: “I delegated that to the Chief medical officer because I recused myself from everything occurring at St Augustine Private Hospital when I was Minister of Health.” Khan said he also resigned as a director after becoming Health Minister and had allowed the board of directors to deal with the shareholding assets.

“I declared everything to the Integrity Commission so to be hit like that is unfortunate,” he said. “However, as Mr (Basdeo) Panday always said, the PNM is the enemy however you have to be careful of the people around you because somebody obviously fed that to the PNM to deal with me in some manner”.