Couva facility achieves 60% reduction in mortality in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago: Following Dr Gopeesingh's claim last evening regarding an increase in COVID-19 deaths related to the Couva hospital, CEO Devlin Thomas announced that the new team of NCRHA doctors at the Couva facility has achieved a 60% decrease in deaths and increased discharges by 20% within the last eight days. "The North Central Regional Health Authority is employing with a strategy of structured and continuous improvement using a systems approach which implies that we engage the situation with the synthesis and holism as opposed to silos and a reductionism,“ CEO Devlin Thomas stated. Thomas, whose master’s degree dissertation was concentrated on improving quality on a platform of organisational transformation processes asserted that the authority was committed to bettering the patient care experience and that this has always been the driving and motivating force behind the ethos of the organisation.

"The medical crew at the Couva facility has done a extraordinary job. The figures speak for themselves, the reduction in mortality rate by 60% is exceptional. This experience and highly qualified multidisciplinary team has also achieved a 25% increase in discharges, with a proximal full to capacity bed occupancy. I am delighted with the work and service being offered there. The implication for what we are seeing in the current data is significant and extremely encouraging,” CEO Davlin Thomas indicated.

Dr Ravi Lalla, Medical Chief of Staff, highlighted the importance of having a specialised team with varying a clinical expertise working with COVID-19 patients and the critical role that it has played in providing improved rates to the benefit of patients at the facility.

“The unit has succeeded in filtering out the noise and employing the battle to save lives with all that we have. Our unit is dedicated to this cause. It is a combined effort that is systematically constructed on the contributions of each part of the whole the cardiologist, the emergency medicine specialist, that intensivists, the nurses, the patient escorts, the technicians, the administrative support staff have all banded together to protect and preserve the life of each individual patient. It takes effort of all to save one and we are determined to do everything we can to ensure that no one dies, and every patient is given the best chance of not just survival but recovery with a higher quality of life,” Lalla stated.

Director of Health, Dr Malachy Ojuro entrusted the efforts of the team.

“Our aim is to protect, care for and save lives. No compromise,” DR Ojuro reemphasised, “I would like to appreciate the team of their commitment and their sacrifice. We are very focused, regardless.”