The Trinidad and Tobago Medical Association (T&TMA) is embarrassed by allegations made last week by Caroni East MP Tim Gopeesingh that doctors of Indian heritage are victims of ethnic cleansing at the Port of Spain General Hospital.Dr Frank Ramlackhansingh, public relations officer of T&TMA, said Gopeesingh has embarrassed the whole medical profession because "he made it sound so racist".
Ramlackhansingh told the Trinidad Express the T&TMA disagrees with Gopeesingh's charge of bias in the hiring practices at the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA). And he confirmed that some of the names on Gopeesingh's list are people who left the NWRHA voluntarily or had reached retirement age.
Gopeesingh named 14 doctors whom he claimed were victims of discrimination. While Gopeesingh's political colleague, former Barataria/San Juan MP Dr Fuad Khan has confirmed that he faced discrimination some of the Gopeesingh named have denied that they had faced discrimination. Three of them were not of Indian descent.
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The latest to do so is vascular surgeon Prof Vijay Naraynsingh. But Naraynsingh has concerns about medical practices at the hospital.
He told the Trinidad Express "all of the eye and urology surgery being done there are not being done by specialist surgeons." He said that's something doctors as the public must be concerned about.
"What is worrisome is that people are being managed by doctors who are less than qualified. And most times it is the poor and elderly people going to have these procedures done," Narayansingh said.
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