The East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA) is re­fut­ing claims that there is an over­run of COVID-19 cas­es at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, as is cur­rent­ly be­ing put about in so­cial me­dia.

And the ER­HA is urg­ing the pub­lic to check with re­li­able sources—such as the Min­istry of Health and the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions—when it comes to news and up­dates on the COVID-19 sit­u­a­tion in this coun­try.

In an ad­vi­so­ry is­sued on the mat­ter, the ER­HA as­sures that the hos­pi­tal’s “Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment is ful­ly func­tion­al, and has not been re­lo­cat­ed to fa­cil­i­tate any sus­pect­ed cas­es of COVID-I9.

The full text of the ER­HA’s ad­vi­so­ry, fol­lows…

DE­BUNK­ING FAKE NEWS

The East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty is in­form­ing the pub­lic that the ru­mour stat­ing that there is an over­run of COVID-19 cas­es at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal is not true.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are ad­vised that the San­gre Grande En­hanced Health Cen­tre Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er's Clin­ic was re­lo­cat­ed to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal on May l, 2021 and May2. 2021 to fa­cil­i­tate sched­uled main­te­nance works at the fa­cil­i­ty.

Kind­ly note the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment is ful­ly func­tion­al, and has not been re­lo­cat­ed to fa­cil­i­tate any sus­pect­ed cas­es of COVID-I9

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are asked to re­frain from shar­ing false or mis­lead­ing in­for­ma­tion about COVID-19.

Please get up­dates on­ly from re­li­able sources such as the Min­istry of Health at www.health.gov.tt, and the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at www.moc.gov.tt.