A 14-page pre-action protocol letter has been sent to the North-West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA), following the death of baby Amelia at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital earlier this month.
Attorneys representing the parents of baby Amelia are demanding full disclosure on what if any changes were made to details contained in her medical records.
Baby Amelia died on April 2 from a suspected bacterial infection and was one of 11 babies who died from similar circumstances at the PoSGH’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) between February and April.
The letter, which was sent by attorney Sue Ann Deosaran, of Freedom Law Chambers, noted that while the NWRHA had provided medical records on seven of the 11 babies who have died, they were unclear on why the documents on the remaining four infants were not provided.
According to the letter: “No explanation has, however, been provided as to why the medical records for the first three babies who died before these seven babies, and the one baby who died after, continue to be suppressed and withheld by the NWRHA.”
“The medical records we are in receipt of to date are not in any way voluminous and we are at a loss to understand why it would have taken the NWRHA so long to scan and email same to us.”
In a media release on Saturday, the NWRHA assured that the NICU continued to function, adding that several pieces of “misinformation” had been circulated in public and they were unable to correct such statements.
However, Deosaran, in the letter, said her clients, who include the parents of other babies, believed the failure of the NWRHA to provide the documents was part of a wider plot to suppress information from surfacing.