A four-mem­ber team of ex­perts has be­gun its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois, though it re­mains un­clear whether the med­ical per­son­nel who ad­min­is­tered the drug have been sent on leave.

The probe, com­mis­sioned by Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe on the in­struc­tion of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by Au­gust 20.

The in­de­pen­dent team in­cludes Dr Ca­ma­nee Lutch­man, Con­sul­tant Pae­di­a­tri­cian at the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty; Clau­dine Shep­pard, a reg­is­tered nurse with ex­pe­ri­ence in qual­i­ty as­sur­ance; for­mer North­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Dr Eliz­a­beth Per­sad; and Pae­di­atric In­ten­sive Care Spe­cial­ist Denelle Singh, who is al­so an at­tor­ney and for­mer Se­nior Le­gal As­so­ciate at the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty.