Near­ly two months af­ter the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) launched an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to Dr. Joel Teelucks­ingh over an ar­ti­cle he au­thored, the re­spect­ed med­ical pro­fes­sion­al has been for­mal­ly cleared of any wrong­do­ing.

Dr Teelucks­ingh, a spe­cial­ist med­ical of­fi­cer at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, was ini­tial­ly placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave fol­low­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of his March 21 ar­ti­cle, ti­tled The Em­per­or’s New Hos­pi­tal.

The piece, which cri­tiqued as­pects of the na­tion­al health­care sys­tem, prompt­ed the SWRHA to ini­ti­ate a probe in­to whether his ac­tions breached pro­fes­sion­al pro­to­cols.

How­ev­er, short­ly there­after, then Min­is­ter of Health, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, in­ter­vened, or­der­ing Dr. Teelucks­ingh’s im­me­di­ate re­in­state­ment, while the in­ves­ti­ga­tion pro­ceed­ed.