One of the doctors named by opposition MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh as a victim of racial discrimination agrees with Gopeesingh that “that racism may have had a part to play” in his decision to leave his job in the public health sector.Dr Fuad Khan, a former junior health minister and one of the country's most respected urologists, has claimed he was bypassed for a senior consultancy position last year for “a less experienced Nigerian doctor” who was working under a senior urologist.
A report in the Trinidad Guardian quotes Khan as saying that a senior urologist and another East Indian doctor “were forced out of the hospital.”
Khan told the paper the post of consultant urologist was advertised by the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) around August, last year, and that he had applied. However, after being interviewed by the panel, he said: “I never heard anything after.”
Khan said he been a senior consultant urologist for the last 16 years and met the requirements for the position, unlike the Nigerian surgeon, whose post-graduate degree was not in urology.
He told the Guardian doctors and members of staff at the hospital also informed him that ethnic cleansing was occurring in the medical field, adding that he was the one who had informed Gopeesingh about the issue of racism at Port-of-Spain General Hospital, and had asked him to raise the matter before Parliament.
He said, “There seems to be an attempt to frustrate the hiring of local doctors, so that they can control the foreign doctors who are on contract. They are now making sure that they put us out of the system.”
He called on the PNM administration to cease the racial attack on East Indians in the country. “I want the PNM to stop practising racism towards Indians."
He is contemplating legal action.
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