UN volunteer doctors to work in TT

ONE HUNDRED United Nation’s volunteer medical doctors, will be supplied to Trinidad and Tobago as part of an agreement signed between the Ministry of Health and the United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP), to assist with the enhancement of the health care service in the country. The volunteers, who will be contracted for a three-year period, will complement the existing core of health care professionals throughout the country, at all levels of health institutions with special emphasis paid to the needs of primary health care services. The target recipients of this programme will be the low income bracket and the poor, who are the main clients of the public health system. The other beneficiaries of the programme will be the junior medical professionals, who will form part of the team of professionals working with the experienced UNV personnel. Health Minister Colm Imbert signed the agreement on behalf of the ministry, while UNDP’s Resident Representative Inyang Ebong-Harstrup signed on behalf of the UNDP.