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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

MP calls on nation to reach out and help health care workers

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SHASTRI BOODAN
1285 days ago
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Member of Parliament for Cumuto/Manzanilla, Dr Rai Ragbir at his Caroni Savannah Road, Chaguanas offices, on New Year’s Eve. (Photo by SHASTRI BOODAN)

Member of Parliament for Cumuto/Manzanilla, Dr Rai Ragbir at his Caroni Savannah Road, Chaguanas offices, on New Year’s Eve. (Photo by SHASTRI BOODAN)

SHAS­TRI BOODAN

 

The pub­lic is be­ing asked to reach out and as­sist health care work­ers bat­tling the COVID-19 virus.  The call comes from Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la, Dr Rai Rag­bir MP.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at his Ch­agua­nas of­fices on Fri­day De­cem­ber 31st, Dr Rag­bir said the health sec­tor is un­der tremen­dous strain be­cause of the COVID-19 virus. 

"Let me pay trib­ute to all the health care work­ers and first re­spon­ders of this blessed coun­try. Many have ac­tu­al­ly con­tract­ed COVID-19 and have suc­cumbed to such,” Dr Rag­bir said.  “We must al­ways re­mind our­selves that they them­selves had had per­son­al sac­ri­fices in terms of their time, their mon­ey, their en­er­gy and fam­i­ly sac­ri­fice. Don't take them for grant­ed.”  

He added: “They have got­ten no fi­nan­cial in­cre­ments. They con­tin­ue to do work even when more of our health care work­ers are get­ting sick and they don't have the re­sources as they would like to have. In 2022, do some­thing nice for a health­care work­er—cook a meal, cut their grass, buy some gro­ceries and veg­eta­bles. Talk to them and say, ‘what I can do for you?’”

The Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP said the coun­try is now num­ber one in the world when it comes to deaths per one mil­lion peo­ple be­cause of COVID-19. 

"The health­care sys­tem is be­ing drained to the abyss of fi­nan­cial dis­rup­tion be­cause you can't keep buy­ing med­ica­tion and help­ing peo­ple, Rag­bir said.  “We have to fix it at some time."  

Dr Rag­bir said vac­cine hes­i­tan­cy is based on per­sons be­liev­ing in con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries.

"Your chance for sur­vival is much greater when you take the vac­cine," he ad­vised.

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