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A woman from south Trinidad has threat­ened to pur­sue a med­ical neg­li­gence case over the death of her son, who died at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal two weeks af­ter be­ing born pre­ma­ture­ly at a lit­tle over 24 weeks ear­li­er this year.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that last week, lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the woman, whose iden­ti­ty was with­held based on the na­ture of the case and the psy­cho­log­i­cal trau­ma she con­tin­ues to en­dure, wrote the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) chief ex­ec­u­tive Dr Bri­an Ar­mour threat­en­ing lit­i­ga­tion over what tran­spired.

In the cor­re­spon­dence, the woman’s lawyer Ted Roop­nar­ine al­leged that his client and her now-de­ceased son were sub­ject­ed to “in­hu­mane, de­grad­ing and med­ical­ly neg­li­gent treat­ment”.