MEDIA RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Falling Ceiling at Burns Unit

San Fernando, March 10th, 2018: The South-West Regional Health Authority wishes to assure the public that patients warded at the Burns Unit at the San Fernando General Hospital have been relocated to safe and secured area and continue to receive treatment as usual from our dedicated healthcare professionals.

The Management and staff of the South-West Regional Health Authority joins the worldwide community in recognising International Women’s Day. In keeping with this year’s theme “Press for Progress” we encourage you to motivate and unite family, friends, colleagues and communities to think, act and be gender inclusive. To our dedicated female staff and our clients, all women and girls, we wish you a Happy International Women’s Day!

The Ministry of Health has a key vacancy for Technical Director, Project Implementation Unit.

Feel free to visit Ministry of Health’s Careers Page at www.health.gov.tt for more information on this opportunity.

Please note that the deadline for applications is Monday 12th March, 2018.

Mr. Reynold Ali of Ontario, Canada expressed his gratitude and commendation for service excellence delivered to his mother during her stay at the San Fernando Teaching Hospital, Female Medical Ward on Level 13. Mr. Ali wrote:  

I Reynold Ali write this letter on behalf of my 87 year old mother, Mary Ali, who was hospitalized on Level 13 (Teaching Hospital). Ms. Ali eventually passed on Boxing Day 2017.

A letter of commendation was extended to the Oncology Department of the San Fernando General Hospital via a letter to the Express Newspaper dated Sunday 25^th February, 2018. The Letter reads:

Please allow me space to make my observations known since as a people, When we are dissatisfied with a service, everyone will know; however, great service is hardly or never recognised.

REJECTED by the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope, for her daughter who is afflicted with Downs Syndrome and who developed scars on the cornea of her right eye, a Tunapuna mother yesterday thanked a medical team of the San Fernando General Hospital who performed ground-breaking cornea transplant surgery which saved the patient’s eyesight.

Read more of this article in link below

http://newsday.co.tt/2018/02/24/cornea-transplant-at-sfgh/

Please be advised that the Palo Seco and Erin Health Centres have been closed earlier than the stipulated time due to lack of electricity supply.

The South-West Regional Health Authority apologises for any inconvenience caused.

THE Ministry of Social Development and Family Services continues to implement its Public Information Education and Sensitization Sessions which was launched in January 2017, to various stakeholder groups.

Read more of this article in link below.

http://newsday.co.tt/2018/02/19/sensitization-drive-in-rhas/

The La Romaine Health Centre was transformed into a Carnival cultural centre on February 7, 2018, when the staff put on their first ever Carnival event. Secondary Schools in the community were invited to perform original compositions on the topic of HIV/AIDS. This event was a medium for heightening awareness about the realities of these communicable diseases and encourage everyone to engage in responsible behaviour especially during the Carnival Season.

TENDER NOTICE

The South-West Regional Health Authority invites tenders for the following: