The com­mit­tee ap­point­ed by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley on Jan­u­ary 17 to in­ves­ti­gate the qual­i­ty of pa­tient treat­ment with­in the Par­al­lel Health­care Sys­tem is seek­ing the help of for­mer pa­tients with its in­quest. 

In a re­lease on Thurs­day, head of the com­mit­tee, Pro­fes­sor Ter­ence Seemu­n­gal asked for pa­tients who were hos­pi­talised to fill out a sur­vey that can help in the com­mit­tee's as­sess­ment. 

"In or­der to have a full ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the qual­i­ty of any health ser­vice, we must ob­tain the views of pa­tients who used the ser­vices pro­vid­ed. With this in mind, we have pro­vid­ed a link to a CON­FI­DEN­TIAL sur­vey of the views of pa­tients," he said.

The in­struc­tions are as fol­lows:  

"We in­vite pa­tients to google Trinidad and To­ba­go Med­ical As­so­ci­a­tion and click on ei­ther the Face­book page or their web­site. The www ad­dress­es for those who need them are:

https://www.face­book.com/tntmed­icalas­soc/                    or

https://tntmed­ical.com/sur­vey-ex­pe­ri­ence-of-covid-19-pa­tients-treat­ed-in-pub­lic-fa­cil­i­ties-in-trinidad-and-to­ba­go/

Once you get to the web­site then scroll down to “Sur­vey of COVID-19 pa­tients…….”, click on the link and fol­low the in­struc­tions to get to the sur­vey."