Wednesday, December 2 2009

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BABSIE Rampersad, 65, of Victoria Street San Fernando wants to know why the Geriatric Adolescent Programme has not paid her husband’s caregiver for at least three months.

Rampersad said the woman takes care of her ailing husband, who can do nothing for himself.

Caregivers under the programme receive $1,800 a month.

“GAP caregivers are not getting salaries every month. That is unfair and my worker is frustrated,” Rampersad said.

She said her husband’s care- giver has not been paid for August, October and November.

“I need her to stay. I am too old to take care of my husband and I can’t afford to pay my worker for the excellent job she is doing,”she said. Anna Bobb, Project Coordinator, for the Geriatric Adolescent Programme at the Ste Madeleine Regional Complex, said they were working feverishly to rectify the situation. “This month we had some problems in the Accounts Department with the machine that prints the cheques but we are working very hard to get the money paid out. It was not intentional,” Bobb said.