NO TRAINED STAFF FOR A BURNS CENTRE

Local doctors and nurses are not skilled or properly trained to deal with severe burns cases, according to SWRHA Director Dr Anand Chatergoon.

It’s why he says, having a specialty burns unit would not be feasible locally.

He was responding to public appeals for a Burn Centre to be established in South Trinidad, the calls came during the South West Regional Health Authority’s Public Board Meeting, at SAPA, San Fernando on Tuesday evening.

Our Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was there and tells us more.