Ministry slow to reinstate Trinidade

DOCTORS have accused the Health Ministry of being deliberately slow in handling the reinstatement of Dr Austin Trinidade as Medical Chief of Staff of the San Fernando General Hospital.

Dr Trinidade went to the Ministry’s Duncan Street, Port-of-Spain office last Tuesday to collect his letter of reinstatement. However doctors received reports that he was not allowed to proceed beyond the foyer at the ground floor of the Ministry. MPATT said Dr Trinidade was told the Permanent Secretary was at a meeting and could not deal with the matter.  “To this present time the illegal and illegitimate instructions of the Permanent Secretary to Dr Trinidade still stands.” MPATT said the illegal and illegitimate appointment of Dr Anand Chattergoon as Ag Medical Chief of Staff is still in effect. Doctors at the San Fernando General Hospital met yesterday and reiterated their dissatisfaction with these two acts. They will inform the public and Administration of their continued dissatisfaction with the authority’s unwillingness to return the hospital to its “normal efficient mode of functioning.”