Bodoe: Govt to assess medical equipment at all RHAs

Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has lament­ed the lack of ad­e­quate med­ical equip­ment to ef­fec­tive­ly serve the pub­lic, not­ing that such chal­lenges were one of sev­er­al is­sues the Gov­ern­ment is work­ing to ad­dress, as he re­called in­stances where dif­fer­ent clin­ics would have to share a de­vice.

Dr Bo­doe high­light­ed the is­sue while ad­dress­ing the 12th an­nu­al con­fer­ence of the Ra­di­o­log­i­cal So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (RSTT) on Sun­day, where he re­flect­ed on the im­por­tance of the in­te­gra­tion of tech­nol­o­gy in med­ical analy­ses and the de­vel­op­ment of these tools in help­ing med­ical pro­fes­sion­als to di­ag­nose and care for their pa­tients.

Re­fer­ring to his past ex­pe­ri­ence as a ward of­fi­cer at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal in the mid 1980s, Dr Bo­doe said the tech­niques and tests used for di­ag­no­sis were dif­fer­ent from what were avail­able to­day, not­ing that ul­tra­sound equip­ment was not wide­ly avail­able for use.