Sascha Wil­son

There was no am­bu­lance avail­able to trans­port coun­cil­lor Gob­in Per­sad Sinanan to the hos­pi­tal af­ter he suf­fered a mild stroke at his Vista­bel­la home on Fri­day morn­ing. Over the past few weeks the am­bu­lance ser­vice has come un­der harsh crit­i­cism for its per­ceived in­ef­fi­cient ser­vice. Sinanan, coun­cil­lor of Mara­bel­la South/Vista­bel­la, was rushed to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal by his wife and is said to be in a sta­ble con­di­tion. The Con­gress of the Peo­ple lo­cal gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tive faint­ed while at his Vista­bel­la home. His wife Seeru­ganie said around 11 am he went to the bath­room to get ready to go to Port-of-Spain.

"When I checked on him I saw that he faint­ed," she said. How­ev­er, when she called for an am­bu­lance she was told that none was avail­able. "They told me one was not avail­able. I did not wait. I took him to the hos­pi­tal my­self," she said. Thank­ing every­one for their sup­port, she said, her hus­band is con­scious and alert. "He knows where he is. He knows every­thing that's hap­pen­ing." She said the doc­tors told her he was do­ing "just fine". He was vis­it­ed by his fel­low coun­cil­lors of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion at the hos­pi­tal on Fri­day night. San Fer­nan­do may­or Mar­lene Coudray said she was un­able to vis­it him be­cause she came down with the virus.