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MINISTRY OF HEALTH
During the period 2015 to 2020, the Ministry of
Health focused on several strategic initiatives
which repositioned, reinvigorating and
significantly improved key aspects of health care
delivery system including:
i. Maternal and Child Health-, where T&T has
already attained its SDG Goal status. A
reduction of 50-60 per 100, 000 live births in
2015 to under 30 per 100,000 live births in
2018 and 2020
ii. Neo-Natal Mortality- where T&T has already
attained its SDG Goal status from 12.0 per
1,000 live births in 2015 to under 9.0 per
1,000 live births in 2017 to under 7 per
1,000 live births in 2018 & 2020
iii. Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention
and Control Strategy across T&T with
Caribbean moves and Health and Wellness
initiatives
iv. Policy decision on the decentralization of
Mental Health Services to the community
level and removing the stigma at ‘St. Ann’s
Hospital’
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v. The various policy and public health
interventions to interrupt and reduce the
transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key
policy decisions include:
• The development of a parallel health care
system specially for the treatment and care
of COVID-19 patients
• Establishment of a Multi-Sectoral
Committee
• Restrictions imposed based on evidence and
medical expert advice on public health
mitigation
• The promotion of the “New Normal’ and the
development of guidelines for Facilities and
Business Places, Homes for the Aged, Home
for Children; Worship, Restaurants and Bars,
Cinemas and Theaters and Schools.
vi. Improvement in the operations of CDAP
with the reduction of the reordering cycle
from 2 months to 1 month and the
dispensing fees from $13 to $8 with saving
of $5M per year
vii. Improvement on the achievement of the
Global 90 90 90 targets for HIV/AIDS with
T&T targets as of 2019 being 80%; 92% and
91% respectively
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