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Promi­nent med­ical doc­tor Joel Teelucks­ingh has been sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

The ac­tion by the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) al­leged­ly stems from the pub­li­ca­tion of his week­ly “Ask The Doc­tor” col­umn in the Trinidad & To­ba­go Guardian news­pa­per on Fri­day, March 21, which was en­ti­tled ‘The Em­per­or’s New Hos­pi­tal’.

Dr Teelucks­ingh, who is a con­sul­tant in in­ter­nal med­i­cine, en­docrinol­o­gy and di­a­betes at the SWHRA, is to re­main on leave with pay pend­ing the out­come of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.