Although all the details of forensic reports are not for the consumption of the general public, it is important that certain details are made known. At least this is according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy.He revealed that the public should always be apprised when a forensic report is written, despite the fact that such reports are not meant for everybody.He asserted that if care and caution are not taken in this regard the way reports are written could be deliberately altered.“We have got to be careful about that because investigators could begin to change what they write if what they write begins to be widely distributed,” the Minister noted.The Minister’s remarks were forthcoming as he responded to questions as to whether reports on maternity death should be made available to persons outside of the health sector.He explained that while the conclusion of reports and recommendations are things that should be made available, such details will now have to be disseminated after gaining the attention of Cabinet.Cabinet, he added, will now report on such matters to the public.“At this time Cabinet has described a process and so Cabinet’s sub-committee is going to have a monthly report of all child deaths and maternity deaths.“Because I know how things happen in the health sector I know that most months we will have no report.”Minister Ramsammy revealed that for at least seven months last year there were zero deaths reported.This course of action was instigated during the latter part of last year in wake of a number of maternity deaths, which rocked the public health sector.Addressing the area of maternity health, the Minister revealed that the public health sector has moved from statistics of 32 per 10,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,000 to between nine and 13 in terms of mortality,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, which according to him represents a marked improvement. Nonetheless, he vocalised concerns that “we are too fragile in our work”.“If in 2009 we averaged nine per 10,000, last year we would most likely be around 12 per 10,000 from the figures we have… Yes it is an improvement but I would like not to see nine to 12, but lower. We seem to have stagnated.”But despite the evident improvement in the area of maternal health,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, the Minister revealed that the Ministry has not in the past 10 years obtained the kind of disparaging results it has seen in the last four months of 2010.“I can’t recall a period in any four months where there have been so many maternal deaths…I think there have been about six over this last few months. That is an embarrassment for me. It is an embarrassment that bothers me; it is really and truly something that is unacceptable.“So there again we have to work with a little bit more commitment so that it never happens again in our country and I really hope that it never happens again.”Moreover,Jerseys Cheap Wholesale, efforts will be sustained,NFL Jerseys China, the Minister said, to ensure that training remains among the paramount features when it comes to the delivery of health care,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, as will be the provision of medicines and other commodities.

…MP finds this unconscionableThe Public Procurement Commission which is a constitutional body born from the Public Procurement legislation should be established to investigate Government’s engineers estimates and contracts for various sectors,Discount Football Jerseys, according to Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan.Leader of the AFC Khemraj RamjattanRamjattan noted that the parliamentary opposition and the government submitted the names of persons to sit on the Commission. However to date nothing has been done to institute this Commission.Noting a bid opened Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the supply and construction of potable water well at Providence,cheap jerseys from china, East Bank Demerara,Cheap Jerseys, Ramjattan said that the engineer’s estimate was $107 million. The lone bidder,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, B.K International, submitted a bid for $174M.He said it is either this government engineer is lackadaisical and does not know his job or there is something seriously wrong with the specification in the contract which made a bidder place such a high bid for the construction of the well.“These things need to be investigated and the Procurement Commission needs to be implemented.”Under the current legislation, Cabinet has the right to review all procurements that exceed $15M.Meanwhile,Jerseys NFL Cheap, another parliamentarian said? “assuming that engineer’s estimate is in keeping with today’s pricing and that his bid is close to the project cost, which I honestly doubt,NFL Jerseys Cheap, then it goes to show how unconscionable some contractors could be—the lengths to which they would go to maximise their profits”.“They would have done a proper estimate and even added a mark-up that would have been in the vicinity of the $107 million. But surely it goes to show the kind of profits these contractors seek and how merciless they are when doing business for the government.”