PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – President of the Council of the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Neil Singh, says various Venezuelan migrants are performing duties within the nation as medical practitioners with out the mandatory clearance from the council.
Talking on an area radio program, Singh stated medical fraud is a world problem and Trinidad and Tobago has not been spared.
“Numerous Venezuelans have come over working towards dentistry…and that one of many docs now we have complained about to the fraud squad is a Venezuelan. He’s really writing prescriptions.
“We don’t know if these are precise docs, we don’t know what degree of coaching they’ve and whether or not their degree of coaching meets our fundamental requirements,” Singh informed this system.
“That’s why you could have a council that regulates the career to make sure the standard of docs you place on the market,” he stated, recalling an incident the place a girl was introduced earlier than the courts, charged TT$60,000 (One TT greenback=US$0.16 cents) and the next day continued doing her “apply”, this time with out figuring out herself as a health care provider.
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A lot of 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 the US in protest over the election of President Nicolas Maduro, which it insists had been fraudulent.
