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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

US Govt donates PCR Machine to T&T Health Ministry

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U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Shante Moore and the Ministry of Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram. (Image courtesy U.S. Embassy Port of Spain)

U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Shante Moore and the Ministry of Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram. (Image courtesy U.S. Embassy Port of Spain)

This coun­try’s Min­istry of Health has re­ceived a do­na­tion of a Poly­merase Chain Re­ac­tion (PCR) ma­chine from the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, val­ued at US$52,928.

The PCR ma­chine was hand­ed over this morn­ing by U.S. Chargé d’Af­faires Shante Moore to the Min­istry of Health’s Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram at the Trinidad Pub­lic Health Lab­o­ra­to­ry, Fed­er­a­tion Park, St. Clair.

“This do­na­tion is the re­al­iza­tion of a com­mit­ment we made last year.  It sup­ports Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fight against COVID-19 and strength­ens the re­gion’s re­sponse through the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA).  The Biden-Har­ris Ad­min­is­tra­tion rec­og­nizes that COVID-19 is a glob­al chal­lenge that re­quires a glob­al re­sponse,” said Chargé d’Af­faires Moore.

He added: “The Min­istry of Health has been do­ing great work to lead Trinidad and To­ba­go out of the pan­dem­ic.  Trinidad and To­ba­go can con­tin­ue to count on the Unit­ed States to be a key part­ner in our joint ef­forts to pro­tect the health and safe­ty of our cit­i­zens, whether com­bat­ting the pan­dem­ic or work­ing to­geth­er in oth­er ar­eas of mu­tu­al in­ter­est.”

Dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, the Unit­ed States has do­nat­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly US$2.5 mil­lion worth of equip­ment and oth­er re­sources to the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go to help in the fight against this dead­ly dis­ease.

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