The South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) says it has launched a probe in­to an in­ci­dent to­day, on the com­pound of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SFGH), in­volv­ing me­dia per­son­nel and se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers con­tract­ed by the SWRHA.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment re­leased a short while ago, the SWRHA says it will de­ter­mine ex­act­ly what ac­tion should be tak­en in the mat­ter, as quick­ly as pos­si­ble.

The full text of the SWRHA state­ment, fol­lows…

SWRHA IN­VES­TI­GATES ME­DIA IN­CI­DENT

The South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) takes note of an in­ci­dent on the com­pound of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SFGH), in­volv­ing mem­bers of the me­dia and SWRHA con­tract­ed se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel.

The SWRHA has im­me­di­ate­ly com­menced an in­ves­ti­ga­tion to un­der­stand the cir­cum­stances which led to the un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dent and de­ter­mine the ap­pro­pri­ate and nec­es­sary course of ac­tion to fol­low. In the in­ter­im, SWRHA has been in con­tact with the ex­ter­nal provider.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the SWRHA ex­press­es re­gret that such un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dent oc­curred and wish­es to re­state our com­mit­ment to re­spect for the free­dom of the press.  SWRHA un­der­scores the im­por­tance of and thanks the me­dia for their con­tin­ued sup­port and co­op­er­a­tion as we seek to re­spond to the glob­al pan­dem­ic.