Director of Pan-African Affairs at the Emancipation Support Committee, Khafra Kambon, is calling for Dr. Avinash Sawh to be decertified as a medical practitioner, over a recording of him making racist and derogatory statements which was leaked last week.

Mr. Kambon says the doctor’s behaviour   would  be  abhorrent  under  any  circumstances,  but adds that  given  his  profession, such  racist  convictions could  become  dangerous.

“Our  concern  about  the reported outburst goes beyond the individual however. This is not the first such incident of a racist  rant  in  the  public  domain  that  the  country  has  experienced    within  the  last  few  months.  The  post-election period  produced  some  of  the  most  inflammatory  outbursts  on  social  media,  the  most  venomous  and  degrading  of which  were  aimed  at  Africans,” Kambon said in a statement.

Hours before he was due to appear before the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday morning for a conduct assessment, Dr.  Sawh publicly apologized for his statements.

“I have brought shame and embarrassment on my family, employers, community and profession. I now understand fully the damaging effect these statements can have on our multicultural society,” he said in a virtual press conference on Wednesday morning, held at his attorney, Martin George’s office in Port of Spain.