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HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says he is disappointed by Fyzabad MP Dr Lackram Bodoe’s claims that folk searching out for a 2nd-hand automobile might well perhaps fabricate one from the ministry’s insect vector preserve watch over division (IVCD).
Deyalsingh made his comment at a assembly of the Standing Finance Committee assembly of the House of Representatives on October 11, forward of it licensed a $6,704,077,000 allocation to his ministry.
Bodoe made his claims right thru the cost range debate in the House on October 10.
In response, Deyalsingh acknowledged he modified into as soon as sad Bodoe had carried out so.
“In 2024, we bought six original vehicles (for the IVCD) and it modified into as soon as melancholy that the member (Bodoe) acknowledged that in show for you a low-rate automobile to aquire, proceed down there and for $2,000 you might well perhaps score a automobile.
“That is heaping scorn on the excellent of us that operate these six original vehicles that we sold in fiscal 2024.”
He added that wanting for these vehicles supposed additional expenditure in this condominium modified into as soon as not required.
Deyalsingh acknowledged these vehicles had been vulnerable in the war in opposition to dengue.
Caroni East MP Dr Rishad Seecheran asked what forms of vehicles they had been.
Deyalsingh acknowledged they had been decide-up vehicles and “we put apart the foggers on the tray to transfer spherical in the communities.”
In response to a ask from Chaguanas East MP Vandana Mohit, Deyalsingh acknowledged the IVCD has a total of 26 vehicles, all of which might well perhaps be working.
The IVCD, he persevered, has He47 hand-held foggers and eight ultra-low-volume fogging machines.
He advised MPs there are plans to aquire 20 more of the worn and 20 of the latter next 300 and sixty five days.
After the committee licensed the ministry’s allocation, committee chairman Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George complimented authorities and opposition MPs for the civility they showed every other in efficiently meting out with this allocation.
She hoped this would continue right thru the subsequent five days, all at some level of which the committee will learn about other budgetary allocations.
Annisette-George acknowledged, “Let’s hope that what we fabricate on the straight highway, we don’t lose on the roundabout.”
