Kamla slams 'malicious' PNM over Couva Hospital — $100m in equipmentnow useless - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

PM slams ‘decade of neglect’

Taxpayers had to deal with nearly $100 million in wasted medical assets over the last decade at the now rededicated Couva Children’s Hospital.

Kamla slams 'malicious' PNM over Couva Hospital — $100m in equipmentnow useless - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

THE prime minister has slammed the PNM for what she called "malicious neglect," when, as the then government, it not only kept the new Couva Children's Hospital shut down for ten years, but also allowed almost $100 million worth of brand new medical equipment to remain unused. This equipment, the PM said, which includes state-of-the-art MRI machines, had deteriorated to the point where they are now useless and were never used to save lives. Deli…