A nurse, who was employed with Dr Seepersaud Chatterdeo, the paediatrician who tested positive for COVID-19 after his demise, has expressed frustration at the long time she was asked to wait before results can be available.
Dr Chatterdeo died on Sunday last after being rushed to the Balwant Singh Hospital. He was a leading paediatrician in the country. On Friday evening, his family confirmed that a posthumous test returned positive.

Sasha Hublall-Ali, a nurse who worked with Dr Chatterdeo at the Balwant Singh Hospital, wrote on her social media account one day later on Saturday that she had been experiencing symptoms such as loss of taste and smell; and congestion.
According to Hublall-Ali, she left her seven-month-old son with her grandmother and went into self-quarantine. A call was made to the COVID-19 hotline number and she was told to visit the Herstelling Health Centre the following day for testing.
The nurse claimed that she was tested on August 31 – one day after Dr Chatterdeo succumbed. She said on September 1, a member of staff from the Balwant Singh Hospital instructed her to go to the Georgetown Public Hospital after inquiring of her condition but she opted to call the health centre to collect her results.
There, she was told that the test is processed in 48 hours and can be collected in two to three weeks. The nurse is contending that this process is too long and she cannot stand the long wait.

Dr Frank Anthony