Rishard Khan
rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

The Com­mit­tee in­ves­ti­gat­ing COVID-19 treat­ment with­in the Par­al­lel Health­care Sys­tem and Pa­tient Out­comes has sub­mit­ted its Re­port to the Prime Min­is­ter.

Con­fir­ma­tion has come from Min­is­ter of Health, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, who said the re­port was pre­sent­ed to him on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

"Si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly, I sent a copy to the Ho­n­ourable Prime Min­is­ter be­cause this was his ini­tia­tive," he said.

While the Prime Min­is­ter said the re­port will be made pub­lic when he an­nounced the for­ma­tion of the com­mit­tee, Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh was un­able to say when it will be done.

"The tim­ing as to when it will be made pub­lic is at the pre­rog­a­tive of the Ho­n­ourable Prime Min­is­ter. So yes, the re­port has been con­clud­ed and yes, we have it in hand," he said.

Head­ed by Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Med­ical Sci­ences at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Pro­fes­sor Ter­ence Seemu­n­gal, the com­mit­tee was ini­tial­ly giv­en a one-week dead­line when it was an­nounced in Jan­u­ary. How­ev­er, it lat­er asked for a three-week ex­ten­sion which was grant­ed.

The oth­er mem­bers of the com­mit­tee are the for­mer dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Med­ical Sci­ences, Pro­fes­sor Emeri­ta Phyl­lis Pitt-Miller; pub­lic health spe­cial­ist, Dr An­ton Cum­ber­batch; con­sul­tant anaes­thetist and in­ten­sive care spe­cial­ist, Dr Vidya Dean; and Di­rec­tor of the Caribbean Cen­tre for Health Sys­tems, Re­search and De­vel­op­ment at the Fac­ul­ty of Med­ical Sci­ences, Pro­fes­sor Don­ald Sime­on.