Deyalsingh: Work on Point Fortin hospital never stopped

Abdullah made the claim on Saturday at a press conference on the hospital construction site, Teschier Village, Point Fortin.

After speaking at the launch of the first TT Neurology Conference held at the Trinidad Hilton Conference Centre yesterday, Deyalsingh told reporters that there was no work to restart as Abdullah was “postulating because work was not stopped.” “I note with sorrow and concern that Mr David Abdullah on April Fools Day would make a totally erroneous statement about the Point Fortin Hospital,” Deyalsingh said.

“The state we have reached is that all the major earth work, which is below ground and which you are not seeing, is now being completed. All the piles have been put down, the piles are being capped, and all the back filling is taking place as we speak.” He continued, “Steel will start to touch the sky in about a month and this is what people want to see. They want to see the physical manifestation above ground and that is going to start in about a month’s time.” Deyalsingh said the steel has been already fabricated and once the construction site was cleaned and prepared to receive steel and erect steel, that is when employment from the Point Fortin area will be ramped up with about 300 to 400 people in that phase of construction.

“I put these facts into the public domain to comfort the people of Point Fortin that the hospital is foremost in the mind of the prime minister and we will bring that hospital to completion. The hospital will be completed within two to two-and-a-half years and it is 27 percent complete.”