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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Women’s health doctor to receive Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Excellence Award

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Dr. Adesh Sirjusingh, Caribbean Excellence Laureate for Public & Civic Contributions. (Image courtesy the Anthony N. Sabga Awards Programme for Caribbean Excellence)

Dr. Adesh Sirjusingh, Caribbean Excellence Laureate for Public & Civic Contributions. (Image courtesy the Anthony N. Sabga Awards Programme for Caribbean Excellence)

Women’s health doc­tor, Dr. Adesh Sir­jus­ingh, is the re­cip­i­ent of an An­tho­ny N. Sab­ga Award, Caribbean Ex­cel­lence for Pub­lic & Civic Con­tri­bu­tions.

Awards’ Progamme Di­rec­tor, Maria Neil­son, con­firmed to­day that Dr. Sir­jus­ingh and two oth­er 2023 Lau­re­ates will each re­ceive TT$500,000 in recog­ni­tion and sup­port of their work at a gala cer­e­mo­ny in Trinidad, in June 2023.

The oth­er 2023 Ex­cel­lence Lau­re­ates are au­thor Joanne Hill­house of An­tigua, and agri-re­searcher Dr. Ma­hen­dra Per­saud of Guyana.

An of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued by the Awards’ Pro­gramme notes that Dr Sir­jus­ingh is best known for lead­ing ma­jor im­prove­ments in ma­ter­nal and in­fant mor­tal­i­ty rates in T&T’s pub­lic health sys­tem.

“It is es­ti­mat­ed that due to the poli­cies im­ple­ment­ed dur­ing his tenure, the lives of at least 80-100 ba­bies and 6-8 moth­ers are saved an­nu­al­ly in T&T,” the Awards Pro­gramme’s re­lease not­ed. 

It added: “Dr. Sir­jus­ingh, who has worked in the pub­lic sys­tem for over 30 years, al­so trans­formed the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal in­to a mod­ern fa­cil­i­ty, of­fer­ing spe­cial­ist 24/7 care to women. Hav­ing grown up in rur­al Trinidad, he al­so finds time to hold free clin­ics for the peo­ple of the area where he spent his child­hood, of­ten vol­un­teer­ing at com­mu­ni­ty health fairs. He has pro­duced count­less brochures and pam­phlets to ed­u­cate women on their clin­i­cal con­di­tions.”

The 55-year-old ob­ste­tri­cian/gy­nae­col­o­gist cur­rent­ly is the Di­rec­tor of Women’s Health at the Min­istry of Health.

The An­tho­ny N. Sab­ga Awards, Caribbean Ex­cel­lence have been award­ed to Caribbean na­tion­als who ex­cel in the fields of Arts & Let­ters, En­tre­pre­neur­ship, Pub­lic & Civic Con­tri­bu­tions and Sci­ence & Tech­nol­o­gy, since 2006.

“This year’s three Lau­re­ates join a dis­tin­guished col­lege of 57 awardees from across the Caribbean,” the re­lease ob­served.

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The An­tho­ny N. Sab­ga Awards Pro­gramme for Caribbean Ex­cel­lence are ad­min­is­tered by the ANSA McAL Foun­da­tion—the phil­an­thropic arm of the ANSA McAL Group.  Nom­i­na­tions for the 2024 Awards are now open at ansacaribbeanawards.com.

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