Doctors involved in Operation Rainbow II are at a loss as to what is causing the re-emergence of boils on the body of Noel Lochan.
Lochan, 19, remained at San Fernando General Hospital yesterday after his boils resurfaced.
He was discovered with the painful, egg-sized boils about his body in April.
Lochan, of Matilda Avenue, Princes Town, has been in and out of hospital undergoing surgery for more than six months.
Local doctors were able to remove most of the boils, but they kept resurfacing.
Lochan?s family and his doctors breathed a sigh of relief after the last operation in September, when the boils seemed to have disappeared.
Health Minister John Rahael said yesterday that the boils had recently reappeared ?very badly.?
He spoke with the Guardian after a news conference with Mission International, the representing organisation of Operation Rainbow.
The team met with Lochan for a consultation at Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, on Thursday because of the re-emergence of the boils.
Dr Christopher Lushington, director of the Caribbean Basin area activities of Missions International and a member of Operation Rainbow, said they could not determine what the problem was.
?We have gotten all his records from the San Fernando General Hospital and we have sent it abroad for a histology (study of the tissue),? he said.
?There is only one case I have ever seen like this and that was in Nigeria many years ago.
?We are still perplexed as to what this is.?
Even so, Lochan remains upbeat about the chances of a full recovery.
