Yvonne Webb

The sus­pen­sion de­ci­sion, fol­low­ing a SWRHA board meet­ing, chaired by Bo­doe on Mon­day, was not unan­i­mous.Sources re­vealed act­ing med­ical di­rec­tor Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon and CEO Paula Chester-Cum­ber­batch vot­ed against it be­fore in­ves­ti­ga­tion, quot­ing the Re­gion­al Health Act.A doc­tor in­formed the T&T Guardian Cha­toor­goon was or­dered to sus­pend or face dis­missal.Yes­ter­day, the SWRHA board met and Chester-Cum­ber­batch's de­lay in is­su­ing the let­ters was to be dis­cussed.At­tempts to con­tact Dr Bo­doe yes­ter­day evening were fu­tile.Ear­li­er he said the ac­tion to sus­pend the nine mem­bers of staff was nev­er meant to be puni­tive but was meant to clear the way for a prop­er in­ves­ti­ga­tion to take place.He de­nied it im­plied wrong­do­ing or mis­con­duct in the death of Ram­soomair.