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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Mom wants to bury dead son; waits for probe

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Tahia Jor­dan, the 23-year-old moth­er who was sent home from the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal with her dead foe­tus on Thurs­day, says she would like to bury the foe­tus as soon as pos­si­ble.On Thurs­day, Jor­dan told the me­dia that she re­turned home af­ter suf­fer­ing a mis­car­riage the day be­fore, on­ly to make the hor­rif­ic dis­cov­ery of her dead five-month-old ba­by wrapped in an in­co­pad in­side a black garbage bag.

Re­call­ing the or­deal she suf­fered Wednes­day, Jor­dan said she felt a sharp pain in her low­er back while at work at Rit­u­als Cof­fee House, Mar­aval, and lat­er felt "some­thing came out of her." Jor­dan said she on­ly found out she was 20 weeks preg­nant the day be­fore she mis­car­ried. She was tak­en to the PoS­GH's Ca­su­al­ty De­part­ment, where she was at­tend­ed to be­fore be­ing ward­ed.Jor­dan said she was lat­er al­lowed to see the foe­tus and was told that it was a boy, adding the preg­nan­cy was her third and the mis­car­riage her sec­ond.

Yes­ter­day, Jor­dan said she had al­ready picked out a name for when­ev­er she gave birth to a son and would have named the ba­by, had he sur­vived, Kaiden. She added that she was tak­en back to the hos­pi­tal on Thurs­day night and left yes­ter­day with­out re­ceiv­ing the coun­selling she had been promised, say­ing she opt­ed to leave as the coun­selling was long in com­ing.

NWHRA com­ments

CEO of the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty, Ju­dith Bali­ram, said yes­ter­day she would have to seek the board's ap­proval to as­sist in the bur­ial.On Thurs­day, Bali­ram told the T&T Guardian the au­thor­i­ty would be will­ing to as­sist and when con­tact­ed yes­ter­day re-af­firmed the po­si­tion, adding that the dis­burs­ing of mon­ey was a board de­ci­sion.

Bali­ram added that a fur­ther re­port would have to be sub­mit­ted to Health Min­is­ter Dr Fuad Khan af­ter cul­pa­bil­i­ty had been clear­ly de­ter­mined. She said there was a clear breach of pro­to­col, which meant some­one was cul­pa­ble and had to be held ac­count­able.


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