Yvonne Webb

Bo­doe, a se­nior gy­nae­col­o­gist, al­so clar­i­fied that he was not part of the in­de­pen­dent com­mit­tee ap­point­ed by the min­istry to lead the Boodoo-Ram­soomair in­ves­ti­ga­tion over the next two weeks. He con­tin­ued to plead that the sus­pen­sion in this mat­ter were not puni­tive, but a mea­sure to pro­tect the pub­lic and staff as well as the rep­u­ta­tion of the au­thor­i­ty. Head of Ob­stet­rics and Gy­nae­col­o­gy Dr Sunil Per­sad, who sat in on the news con­fer­ence with Bo­doe, ad­mit­ted that the se­vere staff short­age was fur­ther af­fect­ed by the loss of five doc­tors on sus­pen­sion. Bo­doe as­sured mea­sures were put in place to en­sure ser­vices at the hos­pi­tal were not ad­verse­ly af­fect­ed by the sus­pen­sion. On the is­sue of surg­eries be­ing can­celled, Bo­doe said he was sur­prised by the re­port and al­so gave the as­sur­ance that the arrange­ments would be made to ac­com­mo­date the 20 pa­tients, whose surg­eries have been post­poned, at the hos­pi­tal or pri­vate in­sti­tu­tions. He said the SWRHA felt strong­ly that pa­tients were not in­con­ve­nienced in any way.