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Free­lance Cor­re­spon­dent

The Gov­ern­ment is re­view­ing the list of med­ica­tions of­fered un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lakram Bo­doe con­firm­ing that con­sul­ta­tions have al­ready be­gun.

“We are look­ing at the drugs used to treat the NCDs—di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion and so on,” Bo­doe said dur­ing a grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny host­ed by the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DATT) yes­ter­day.