First (1st) Sitting of the Twenty - Sixth (26th) Meeting of the First Session of the Thirteenth (13th) Legislature · 30 Jul 2026
Revised First Supplementary Appropriation Estimate 2026/2027
Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the Appropriations Committee, persons listening in, Ministry of Finance colleagues and those in the gallery. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have a statement, and I can proceed if you would like me to do so…
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Revised First Supplementary Appropriation Estimate 2026/2027
Good morning again, everyone. As the Chair indicated, I am Desiree Lewis, the Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Health and Human Services. I appear before the Appropriations Committee today to provide a rationale in relation to the…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
The NHIP benefits regulations provide an outline of the health services covered by the plan for beneficiaries. Under schedule two, there is a list of excluded benefits, which specifically includes long-term care. Currently, there are a numb…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Thank you for the question, Honourable Member. Through the Acting Chair, it services about three clients at this stage, but one of the clients carries the bulk of the finances right now.
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
The additional funds will assist additional clients. Currently, the NHIP is carrying about 14 additional clients who have to be transferred to the Ministry of Health and Human Services. The additional funds will assist the ministry for the …
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Through the Acting Chair, to ensure that I have received the Honourable Member's question correctly, is it the clients that are currently with the Ministry of Health that you are inquiring about, or those who will be transferred from the NH…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Currently we have two patients at Revamp and one at another facility in Jamaica. Apologies, that one is now discharged. We have four clients at Hospital Internacional in Colombia. We have three clients in Health City in Cayman. We have one …
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Based on what the NHIP is currently paying for some of the clients, the Ministry of Health is confident that the additional $1 million will assist.
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
I cannot say. Healthcare is very fluid, sir, and anything can happen to one of these patients. They can either progress or regress. If they regress, we might be looking at additional funding, but we pray that none of them regress and that a…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Thank you, Honourable Member. From the Ministry of Health perspective, I can say that, for those clients we have been covering, we see an average of $24,000 per month. For a breakdown on those from the NHIP, I would have to request that inf…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Thank you for the question, Hon. Chair. Based on my knowledge, I believe that we will receive the funds, but I cannot anticipate an appropriation at this stage. Perhaps the question should be posed as a parliamentary question to the policym…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
If it is recurrent, it is throughout all of the Turks and Caicos Islands. If it is capital, it is Grand Turk and Providenciales.
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Thank you for the question through the Acting Chair. To the member, some of those patients have been covered for approximately 1,099 days, and that figure speaks to the longest client that we have overseas receiving long-term care. That is …
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Thank you to the Honourable Member. Through the Chair, because each patient has his or her own special challenges, a number of different disciplines would be required. Whilst we have one patient receiving long-term care who has a congenital…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
The aim is to assist these patients from the additional funding that we are requesting at this stage.
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Through the Acting Chair, to the Honourable Member's question, not to my knowledge. Based on the current policy that we have in place for treatment abroad, once we send a patient overseas, the patient does have an option to have an accompan…
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Supplementary Funding Request for Long-term Care
Thank you, Honourable Member. You are correct.
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Appropriations Committee Scrutiny of the Revised Supplementary Appropriations 2026-2027 Bill 2026
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the Committee. Thank you.
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