Carisa Lee

PA­HO's re­port in­to the deaths of sev­er­al ba­bies at the Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU) of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal is still out­stand­ing. Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says as soon as he re­ceives the re­port the pop­u­la­tion will know.

Speak­ing at a blood do­na­tion dri­ve in cel­e­bra­tion of World Blood Donor Day on the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade on Fri­day morn­ing, Deyals­ingh said, just like the par­ents and the pop­u­la­tion, he too is wait­ing for an­swers.

A three-per­son team from the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion was se­lect­ed for the in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

It in­cludes Dr Nali­ni Singh, Dr Grisel Ro­driguez and Dr Gillian Birch­wood.

As the min­istry com­mem­o­rates World Blood Donor Day, Deyals­ingh is en­cour­ag­ing the pop­u­la­tion to give blood vol­un­tar­i­ly as the coun­try moves away from the chit sys­tem which he de­scribes as in­equitable.