Motions
Private Motion – Reversal of the Regional Health Authorities (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2004
House of Representatives - 3rd Session - 8th Republican Parliament
WHEREAS it is provided in Section 4(3) of the Regional Health Authorities Act 1994 that the Minister (of Health) may by Order, subject to the negative resolution of Parliament amend the First Schedule, which lists the names and boundaries of the Regional Health Authorities;
WHEREAS by Legal Notice dated 13th August, 2004, the Minister of Health dissolved the North West Regional Health Authority and in its place created the North Regional Health Authority and the North Central Regional Health Authority;
WHEREAS the said Order known as the Regional Health Authorities (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2004, was laid in the House of Representatives by the Minister of Health on the 15th day of September, 2004;
WHEREASthe addition to, and configuration of the Regional Health Authorities as contained in the said Order do not allow for the efficient delivery of health care to the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago;
BE IT RESOLVED that immediate steps be taken to have the Regional Health Authorities (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2004 reversed.
By the Member for Caroni Central
