Deyalsingh warns of ‘purges’ in public service

For­mer health min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has warned of a cam­paign of “purges” with­in the pub­lic ser­vice, fol­low­ing re­ports that Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram was sent on leave un­der con­tro­ver­sial cir­cum­stances.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has de­nied that Dr Paras­ram was forced out, telling re­porters the CMO had ap­plied for his leave, which was ap­proved in the usu­al man­ner.

“My in­for­ma­tion is that the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram had ac­cu­mu­lat­ed a cer­tain amount of leave, and he had ap­plied for the leave, and the nor­mal process—the leave was grant­ed,” Bo­doe said.