The racial­ly charged and deroga­to­ry state­ments made by Dr Avinash Sawh are now af­fect­ing Uro­log­i­cal Sur­geon Dr Lall Sawh and his two sons who are prac­tis­ing med­ical pro­fes­sion­als.

Speak­ing to the Trinidad Guardian from his of­fice at South­ern Med­ical Pri­vate Hos­pi­tal in San Fer­nan­do, Dr Lall R Sawh made it clear that he is not in no way re­lat­ed to the Dr Avinash Sawh.

Since the au­dio record­ings went vi­ral Dr Lall R Sawh said he has been at­tacked in­no­cent­ly and has been en­dur­ing claims that he was re­lat­ed to the doc­tor.

“I wish to re­ply to posts on so­cial me­dia al­leged­ly made by on Avinash Sawh, First­ly let me strong­ly in­di­cate to my pa­tients and the pub­lic at large that I, Lall R Sawh is not re­lat­ed, in any way, to the in­di­vid­ual, Avinash Sawh. Nor he is my son!”, Dr Sawh said.

He added, “his rants have caused my sons and I, per­son­al at­tacks from those who don’t know us well enough. My sons are both abroad prac­tis­ing, one is urol­o­gist like my­self and the oth­er a den­tist, so I em­phat­i­cal­ly state that he is not my son and I, there­fore, wish to de­fend my­self and my un­tar­nished 40-year rep­u­ta­tion as a Spe­cial­ist Urol­o­gist and al­so that of my sons. My work and ca­reer speak for it­self, we don’t have any as­so­ci­a­tion with this gen­tle­man, I am sor­ry to use the word gen­tle­man. I have op­er­at­ed on every per­son in every walk of life from Prime Min­is­ters to Gov­er­nor Gen­er­als, Pres­i­dent’s even a va­grant and I have nev­er no­ticed a sin­gle dif­fer­ence in their anato­my in­side the hu­man body whether African, In­dia Chi­nese or what­ev­er race”.

Dr Lall R Sawh said he laments that the oth­er doc­tor’s ut­ter­ances have tar­nished the med­ical pro­fes­sion and he be­lieves he is no longer wor­thy to car­ry the ti­tle of doc­tor.

Dr Lall R Sawh added, “I could not help re­call­ing the words of a fa­mous philoso­pher who said “those whom the Gods wish to de­stroy, they first make mad.” I will quote from Khafra Kam­bon as he so well said, “med­i­cine and racism is a tox­ic mix”.

He added he hopes the med­ical board rids the fra­ter­ni­ty of an in­di­vid­ual who would make such racist re­marks.