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Saturday, July 19, 2025

India PM’s visit to T&T

Seecheran hopeful healthcare will be part of talks

by

Jesse Ramdeo
26 days ago
20250624
Minister in the Ministry of Health  Dr Rishad Seecheran

Minister in the Ministry of Health Dr Rishad Seecheran

KERWIN PIERRE

Jesse Ramdeo

Se­nior Re­porter

jesse.ramdeo@cnc3.co.tt

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health, Dr Rishad Seecher­an, is op­ti­mistic that the up­com­ing vis­it by In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di in Ju­ly will in­clude mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sions on health co­op­er­a­tion.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia out­side the Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, Seecher­an said the bi­lat­er­al en­gage­ments be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and In­dia over the years had strength­ened ties across cer­tain sec­tors and he was hop­ing this would con­tin­ue with Mo­di’s im­pend­ing vis­it.

“In­dia is a fore­most play­er on the world stage in health and we will try to en­gage the gov­ern­ment in In­dia, through Prime Min­is­ter Mo­di, to see how best that re­la­tion­ship could be an ad­van­tage to Trinidad and To­ba­go,” Seecher­an said.

Seecher­an said Mo­di’s vis­it will be a piv­otal mo­ment not just for diplo­ma­cy, but for on-the-ground im­prove­ment in the health sys­tem.

Seecher­an em­pha­sised that with In­dia’s tech­no­log­i­cal ad­vance­ments, es­pe­cial­ly in af­ford­able health­care, T&T stands to ben­e­fit sig­nif­i­cant­ly from shared ex­per­tise and joint ini­tia­tives.

He fur­ther un­der­scored that ef­forts will al­so be made to align with a vi­sion for deep­er part­ner­ships.

“We will be look­ing for part­ner­ships. In the past, we have used hos­pi­tals in In­dia with as­sis­tance from the Chil­dren’s Life Fund and we will look to see if we can ex­pand in terms of that av­enue, as well as in oth­er ar­eas, pos­si­bly phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, health ser­vices and we will see how it goes.”

Prime Min­is­ter Mo­di, will vis­it T&T next month. It will be his first of­fi­cial trip to this coun­try since he as­sumed the top of­fice in In­dia 11 years ago. How­ev­er, he did vis­it this coun­try in 2002 as part of a del­e­ga­tion at­tend­ing the World Hin­du Con­fer­ence.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports in the In­di­an me­dia, Mo­di’s for­eign tour will al­so in­clude a vis­it to Ar­genti­na. He will al­so trav­el to Brazil for the BRICS Sum­mit.


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