Medical Council to rule on convicted child-sex felon

Vishwamintra Persaud

The newly-elected members of the Medical Council of Guyana were up to press time in a meeting and one of the items up for discussion was the granting of a licence to Dr Vishwamintra Persaud to practice locally even though he is a convicted child sex felon whose New York licence was revoked late in 2008.

Efforts to get a comment from the council provided to be futile but Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy when approached told Stabroek News