Kali­fa Clyne

The Med­ical Prac­ti­tion­ers of T&T (MPATT) will not be re­ceiv­ing a copy of the Chrys­tal Boodoo-Ram­sumair re­port from the Min­istry of Health, says Health Min­is­ter Therese Bap­tiste-Cor­nelis. She was speak­ing to the me­dia at the min­istry's East­er ex­trav­a­gan­za at the Neal­co car park, Ed­ward Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Bap­tiste-Cor­nelis said she was aware of MPATT's re­sponse in the me­dia. MPATT sec­re­tary She­henaz Mo­hammed had called the leak cal­cu­lat­ed and mis­chie­vous. The min­is­ter said she agreed with MPATT that the leak­ing to the me­dia was cal­cu­lat­ed and mis­chie­vous but added that giv­ing MPATT a copy was not part of the process.

Bap­tiste-Cor­nelis said it was up to the board of the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to de­cide if to give MPATT a copy. She said the board typ­i­cal­ly gave copies of a re­port to mem­bers of the fam­i­ly.

She said she did not know how the doc­u­ment was leaked but point­ed out that with the Da­ta Pro­tec­tion Act peo­ple could be fined for sit­u­a­tions where doc­u­ments were leaked. She said though the leak­ing of the doc­u­ment was wrong the de­ci­sion by the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al was not af­fect­ed by it.