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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) has called on the Gov­ern­ment to ex­tend its pro­posed ini­tia­tive to pro­vide Con­tin­u­ous Glu­cose Mon­i­tors (CGMs) to in­clude blind and vi­su­al­ly im­paired in­di­vid­u­als.

The re­quest fol­lows re­cent state­ments by Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe, who in­di­cat­ed that the 2025/2026 na­tion­al bud­get may in­clude the pro­vi­sion of CGMs for chil­dren with Type 1 di­a­betes. The TTB­WA ac­knowl­edged the ini­tia­tive and urged that it be ex­pand­ed to cov­er blind per­sons liv­ing with di­a­betes.

Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the TTB­WA, Ken­neth Suratt, yes­ter­day said CGMs al­low re­al-time blood glu­cose mon­i­tor­ing through smart­phone apps that are com­pat­i­ble with screen read­ers.