Dr Parasram retired from the medical field in 2004 after working in the Trinidad and Tobago health services for several years. He was Chief Medical Officer when he left the service to devote his time to religion.
During the extensive career in public service he has held several national offices.
He has served as Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine UWI, Part time Lecturer at NIHERST and the College of Allied Health Sciences and was a member of the Medical Council of the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago.
He was also Chairman of the Tumpuna Road Rehabilitation Centre and vice President of the National Council of Alcoholism.
Dr Parasram was the first chairman of the National Mental Health Committee from 2001 to 2003 and the first chairman of Divali Nagar.
He was also involved in politics at the organisational level, having served as chairman of Club 88, which later became the United National Congress (UNC). He was the first chairman of the party.
In "retirement" he is a Hindu priest, following in the family tradition, and is one of the founders of the Pandit Parasram School of Hinduism, Mc Bean, Couva, which is dedicated to our father, the late Pandit Parasram, who dedicated his entire life to serving his community.
He had previously been honoured by the Vishist Seva Samaan for Hindi, by the Indian High Commission (2000) in Port-of-Spain, by the Association of Psychiatrists, by Alcoholics Anonymous.
Junior Works Minister and MP for Couva South, Rudy Indarsingh, was among several persons who paid tribute to Dr Parasram.
Dr Parasram will be officiating at a nine-night yagna at the Satya Jyoti Hindu Mandir in Toronto, starting on October 8.
-Jai Parasram | Toronto
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