Pen­sion­ers, the dis­abled, the sick, peo­ple in abu­sive re­la­tion­ships and those who are with­out care­givers are to ben­e­fit from a new med­ical alert sys­tem to be in­tro­duced by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) from Au­gust. Sec­re­tary of Fi­nance and En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment, Dr Anselm Lon­don, dis­closed this on Mon­day night dur­ing his ad­dress at the as­sem­bly's Re­port­ing to the Dis­tricts stop at the Bon Ac­cord Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

Lon­don said these peo­ple would be pro­vid­ed with bracelets which they would have to wear. He said in the event of an emer­gency they would have to trig­ger a but­ton on the unit to alert the To­ba­go Emer­gency Cen­tre at Sig­nal Hill by au­to­mat­i­cal­ly di­alling the num­bers 222. He said de­pend­ing on the emer­gency, the cen­tre would then sum­mon the po­lice, fire or med­ical ser­vices to pro­vide as­sis­tance to the caller.

The fi­nance sec­re­tary said the sys­tem was wide­ly used in the Unit­ed States and the bracelets were be­ing im­port­ed di­rect­ly from a man­u­fac­tur­er there. Lon­don al­so said the 211 cen­tre had re­ceived more than 80,000 peo­ple for in­for­ma­tion and emer­gen­cies since its cre­ation four years ago.

Re­port­ing to the con­stituents, Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don took Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er to task for promis­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans to fix their roads. Lon­don said there were hun­dreds of peo­ple protest­ing the bad con­di­tion of roads. He claimed peo­ple were burn­ing tyres in Trinidad be­cause Warn­er was not fix­ing roads yet he was anx­ious to fix To­ba­go roads which were the best in the na­tion.

The To­ba­go chief sec­re­tary said the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex which was be­ing crit­i­cised for the de­lay in com­ple­tion would be equipped with the most mod­ern fa­cil­i­ties and would be the on­ly one of its kind in the East­ern Caribbean. It will al­so have a ca­pac­i­ty for 5,000 and pro­vide for cul­ture and in­door sport­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.