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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Scarborough General Hospital not in emergency mode—CEO

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Camille McEachnie
2081 days ago
20191102
 TRHA CEO Sheldon Cyrus

TRHA CEO Sheldon Cyrus

The Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal is not in emer­gency mode, as is wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty's (TRHA) Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) Shel­don Cyrus said the in­for­ma­tion be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed was un­true. "That is not true. We do not want the pop­u­la­tion to pan­ic," Cyrus told Guardian Me­dia.

Told that we have a copy of the let­ter from the TRHA's Med­ical Chief of Staff Dr Ru­faro Ce­les­tine, giv­ing the emer­gency mode in­struc­tion, he said, "It was an is­sue that it was un­der con­sid­er­a­tion, but we did not go that way."

The let­ter marked "ur­gent" was sent on Fri­day evening to all doc­tors and 26 oth­er mem­bers of staff.

It stat­ed: "I am go­ing to ask the CEO Mr (Shel­don) Cyrus to place the hos­pi­tal in emer­gency mode as we can no longer pro­vide spe­cial­ist med­ical care for adult pa­tients."

Ce­les­tine's let­ter stat­ed that it was nec­es­sary as on­ly an in­tern and a house of­fi­cer were on du­ty in the In­ter­nal Med­i­cine De­part­ment. Six oth­er doc­tors at­tached to the de­part­ment are ei­ther on leave or ill, she added.

She in­di­cat­ed that she was un­qual­i­fied to help in that de­part­ment.

"I wish I could per­son­al­ly as­sist...dur­ing this crit­i­cal pe­ri­od, but I am a spe­cial­ist in pub­lic health med­i­cine and I am not medico-legal­ly able to do so."


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