2024 Port-of-Spain General Hospital baby deaths

A High Court Judge has slammed the for­mer North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) board for reneg­ing on its promise to dis­close the re­port from its in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a bac­te­r­i­al out­break at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU) unit that claimed the lives of sev­en ba­bies over a week in 2024.

High Court Judge Robin Mo­hammed is­sued the crit­i­cism on Thurs­day, as he up­held a law­suit brought by Free­dom Law’s Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, on be­half of one of the af­fect­ed moth­ers, Shanya Ray­mond-Adams.

In de­cid­ing the case, Jus­tice Mo­hammed found it “high­ly sus­pi­cious” that the NWRHA re­fused to dis­close the in­ves­tiga­tive re­port on the ba­sis of le­gal pro­fes­sion­al priv­i­lege, af­ter its for­mer CEO, An­tho­ny Blake, gave pub­lic as­sur­ances it would be hand­ed over to the griev­ing par­ents and their lawyers.