Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Diego Mar­tin West Dr Kei­th Row­ley, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Fo­rum of In­di­an Na­tion­als In Trinidad and To­ba­go (FINTT) host­ed a health camp at the Care­nage Boys' Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School on May 20.

A re­lease from the of­fice of the Op­po­si­tion Leader said vol­un­teers and com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivists from the area worked with 100 FINTT vol­un­teers, which com­prised 50 doc­tors, 12 nurs­es, three phar­ma­cists, three phys­io­ther­a­pists, one lab tech­ni­cian and oth­er vol­un­teers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) and the pri­vate sec­tor. The team did con­sul­ta­tions, de­liv­ered lec­tures and lit­er­a­ture on gen­er­al health ed­u­ca­tion such as di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion, den­tal hy­giene, men­tal health, phys­io­ther­a­py, ECGs, ul­tra­sounds, lung func­tion tests, blood sug­ar test­ing, blood pres­sure checks, urine and HIV test­ing. Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 500 peo­ple were in at­ten­dance.