Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has promised to es­tab­lish vir­tu­al doc­tor ses­sions for the el­der­ly should the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment be re-elect­ed in the April 28 polls. The Prime Min­is­ter al­so plans to of­fer cheap­er da­ta plans for young peo­ple of T&T.

He made the promis­es dur­ing a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment po­lit­i­cal meet­ing at the Ex­o­dus pa­n­yard in Tu­na­puna on Sat­ur­day.

Young said this ap­proach was far more re­spon­si­ble and po­ten­tial­ly cost-ef­fec­tive than the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ plan to send doc­tors phys­i­cal­ly to the homes of el­der­ly peo­ple. “Af­ter con­sult­ing with Min­is­ter (Ter­rence) Deyals­ingh to­day and ask­ing him to get more in­for­ma­tion, the next PNM Gov­ern­ment, hav­ing con­sid­er­a­tion and con­sid­er­ing in par­tic­u­lar our se­nior cit­i­zens, we are go­ing to ex­pand the avail­abil­i­ty and use of vir­tu­al doc­tor con­sul­ta­tions for se­nior cit­i­zens who want to use it so they don’t have to sit down for hours wait­ing in a health­care cen­tre,” said Young.