Children’s Life Fund facilitates first local specialist procedure under amended Act

The amend­ed Chil­dren’s Life Fund Act has al­lowed an in­ter­na­tion­al med­ical spe­cial­ist to trav­el to Trinidad and To­ba­go to per­form a spe­cialised pro­ce­dure on a child, avoid­ing the need to send the ben­e­fi­cia­ry over­seas for treat­ment.

The pro­ce­dure was car­ried out last Fri­day at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, with the in­ter­na­tion­al spe­cial­ist work­ing along­side lo­cal doc­tors and med­ical teams.

The Chil­dren’s Life Fund Au­thor­i­ty (CLFA) said the pro­ce­dure marked the first time it has fa­cil­i­tat­ed an in­ter­na­tion­al spe­cial­ist pro­vid­ing spe­cialised treat­ment lo­cal­ly un­der the amend­ed leg­is­la­tion.