The Min­istry of Health has an­nounced that the in­de­pen­dent ex­pert pan­el con­vened to re­view the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the pass­ing of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois has sub­mit­ted its re­port.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry, while the pan­el has pre­sent­ed its find­ings, a state­ment from the par­ents of Jash­er Fran­cois was not re­ceived dur­ing the ex­ten­sion pe­ri­od that had been grant­ed to them.

The Of­fice of the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer has since con­tact­ed Jash­er’s par­ents to ob­tain their per­spec­tive. The Min­istry stat­ed that this step is nec­es­sary to en­sure the re­view re­flects fair­ness and in­cludes the views of all par­ties in­volved.

The Min­istry of Health re­it­er­at­ed its con­do­lences to the Fran­cois fam­i­ly and reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to car­ry­ing out the re­view process with in­tegri­ty. Of­fi­cials said the Min­istry will con­tin­ue to up­date the pub­lic as the re­view pro­gress­es.

The ex­pert pan­el was es­tab­lished to ex­am­ine all cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the case, with the in­ten­tion of pro­vid­ing rec­om­men­da­tions to guide fu­ture ac­tions. The Min­istry not­ed that cap­tur­ing the par­ents’ in­put re­mains a crit­i­cal el­e­ment in the process and has as­sured that ef­forts will con­tin­ue to in­clude their voice.

Fur­ther de­tails on the re­port will be made pub­lic in due course, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry.