At­tor­ney Ravi Ra­jku­mar, who is rep­re­sent­ing Lorne Ram­soomair, said he hoped that the in­quiry would go a long way in re­solv­ing, not on­ly Chrys­tal Boodoo-Ram­soomair's death but al­so the prob­lems in the health­care sys­tem."If the re­port shows a lev­el of neg­li­gence there can be manslaugh­ter charges in this mat­ter. It is very clear that if neg­li­gence fell way be­low the stan­dard ex­pect­ed of a med­ical prac­ti­tion­er manslaugh­ter would be the re­sult. It's time the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions took a se­ri­ous view of these things."

Ra­jku­mar said the health­care prob­lems have been on-go­ing."It was not born yes­ter­day. I can't blame the Gov­ern­ment."In the Unit­ed King­dom, Ra­jku­mar said they set up a sim­i­lar kind of com­mis­sion when deaths oc­curred."That went a long way in eas­ing the trou­bles of per­sons in­stead of go­ing to court to face the trau­ma of court pro­ceed­ings."Ra­jku­mar said he could on­ly hope that the Gov­ern­ment went this way.Asked if there was need to im­ple­ment mal­prac­tice law­suits against doc­tors in T&T, Ra­jku­mar said At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, in his for­mer life as an at­tor­ney, had done that."Whether or not lawyers will do it. I don't know. Quite frankly a lot of peo­ple who suf­fered at the hands of the med­ical sys­tem are poor peo­ple."

Cha­toor­goon: An in­dict­ment of the health sec­tor

For­mer act­ing med­ical di­rec­tor at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon, who stood in de­fence of the five sus­pend­ed doc­tors and nurs­es and ob­ject­ed to the fir­ing of SWRHA chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Paula Chester-Cum­ber­batch, said the find­ings were an in­dict­ment of the en­tire health sec­tor."This does not paint a nice pic­ture of the whole health ser­vice."Cha­toor­goon said over 400 rec­om­men­da­tions made by Gladys Gafoor who chaired the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the op­er­a­tion and de­liv­ery of the pub­lic health­care ser­vices in T&T in 2006 were nev­er im­ple­ment­ed."There are cur­rent­ly too many ills plagu­ing the health sec­tor which we must ad­dress."Cha­toor­goon said the pub­lic hos­pi­tals need­ed a beef­ing up of nurs­es, doc­tors, equip­ment, train­ing and med­ica­tion to en­sure things ran smooth­ly.

Lorne Ram­soomair­refus­es to com­ment

The hus­band of Boodoo-Ram­soomair said he want­ed to read the re­port first be­fore com­ment­ing.

Boodoo: God hasan­swered my prayers

Joyce Boodoo re­joiced and thanked God yes­ter­day af­ter hear­ing the find­ings of the re­port."God has an­swered my prayers. I knew this would have been the out­come."Boodoo, 61, of Cara­pichaima is the moth­er of the late Boodoo-Ram­soomair.Boodoo de­nied that she was of­fered com­pen­sa­tion by the Min­istry of Health for her daugh­ter's death.She said if monies were to be award­ed, her son-in-law Lorne Ram­soomair and her three grand­chil­dren should be giv­en first."No amount of mon­ey could bring back my daugh­ter. I would have to live with this for the rest of my life."

Mo­hammed: I will have to look at the re­port

The gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Med­ical Pro­fes­sion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T, Dr She­henaz Mo­hammed, re­served her com­ment un­til she looked at the re­port.

Bo­doe awaits re­port

Chair­man of SWRHA Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe said he could not com­ment on Boodoo-Ram­soomair's death as he was still await­ing the re­port.Asked when he ex­pect­ed to re­ceive the re­port, Bo­doe ad­vised this re­porter to speak to the Min­is­ter of Health.

About the 2006 COE in­to the health­care ser­vice

In 2006, Gladys Gafoor chaired a Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the op­er­a­tions and de­liv­ery of the pub­lic health­care ser­vices.A re­port com­ing out of the in­quiry high­light­ed a num­ber of find­ings, which ranged from poor man­age­ment, the ap­pear­ance of med­ical mal­prac­tice, lack of trans­paren­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty and mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of gov­ern­ment prop­er­ty.Gafoor said the fact-find­ings mis­sions were "mon­u­men­tal."Fol­low­ing the sub­mis­sion of the re­port, then prime min­is­ter, Patrick Man­ning sent a copy to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, the CoP and the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion.The re­port was al­so sub­mit­ted to Par­lia­ment in Au­gust 2007.Man­ning, how­ev­er, made no fol­low-up state­ment with re­gards to the re­port which cost tax­pay­ers mil­lions.