AN OPPOSITION MP wants to make illegal the breach of confidentiality that results from the handling of medical certificates by a company’s non-medical personnel.
Further, Opposition Barbados Labour Party MP, Dr Maria Agard, feels Parliament should also right the mischief of the refusal by insurance companies to grant coverage to individuals based on their medical history or health risk.
The BLP Christ Church West MP, who is the spokesman in the House of Assembly on health matters, was reaffirming her party’s commitment yesterday at the 7th annual Regional HIV/AIDS Testing Day at the Carlton Complex, St Michael, sponsored by the Barbados-based Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS with support from Scotiabank.
Agard, a practising dentist, felt that as Barbadians celebrated their achievements in halting or reversing the HIV epidemic, essentially through primary care interventions, “we must be ever conscious of the need to ensure that those living with HIV/AIDS are free of ridicule, discrimination, alienation and abuse”.
