While government ministers under the Donald Ramotar administration were accessing millions for medical aid, including for cosmetic procedures, some ordinary citizens were not getting the help they needed in cases that sometimes were sometimes life or death.
New Public Health Minister Dr George Norton says he intends to clip all “bureaucracy” in the medical assistance programme to ensure funds will be more readily available to patients who are in desperate need.
“I will be looking at cutting down on the bureaucracy of medical assistance because only recently we had a situation where it was too late for a child to receive medical treatment even though approval was given,” Norton told Stabroek News in an interview on Thursday, while referring to the
