President of the Council of the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Neil Singh, says plenty of Venezuelan migrants are performing duties within the nation as medical practitioners with out the required clearance from the council.
Talking on a neighborhood radio programme, Singh mentioned medical fraud is a worldwide challenge and Trinidad and Tobago has not been spared.
“A whole lot of Venezuelans have come over practising dentistry…and that one of many medical doctors we’ve complained about to the fraud squad is a Venezuelan. He’s really writing prescriptions.
“We don’t know if these are precise medical doctors, we don’t know what stage of coaching they’ve and whether or not their stage of coaching meets our fundamental requirements,” Singh informed the programme.
“That’s why you could have a council that regulates the career to make sure the standard of medical doctors you set on the market,” he mentioned, recalling an incident the place a lady was introduced earlier than the courts, charged TT$60,000 (One TT greenback=US$0.16 cents) and the next day continued doing her “follow”, this time with out figuring out herself as a health care provider.
Quite a few Venezuelan nationals have fled to Trinidad and Tobago to flee the political and socio-economic circumstances within the South American nation caused additionally by the financial embargo positioned on the nation by america in protest over the election of President Nicolas Maduro, which it insists had been fraudulent.
