Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has re­vealed that he is yet to re­ceive any word from PA­HO of­fi­cials on their probe in­to the deaths of sev­er­al ba­bies at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit, ear­li­er this year.

His ad­mis­sion comes just over three weeks af­ter the three-mem­ber team from the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion con­clud­ed the in-coun­try part of their in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

On April 22, the PA­HO of­fi­cials ar­rived in T&T to in­ves­ti­gate the deaths of sev­er­al ba­bies which oc­curred be­tween April 4th and 9th be­cause of a bac­te­r­i­al in­fec­tion at the NICU.

By April 26, the PA­HO team mem­bers had re­turned to their re­spec­tive ter­ri­to­ries to analyse da­ta that had been sent elec­tron­i­cal­ly up­on re­quest.

Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh pre­vi­ous­ly as­sured that the find­ings of the PA­HO-fund­ed probe would be made pub­lic. How­ev­er, he in­di­cat­ed it could take a while be­fore the fi­nal re­port is sub­mit­ted.

Since the ini­tial clus­ter of ba­by deaths, oth­er par­ents have come for­ward claim­ing their ba­bies died due to neg­li­gence at the hos­pi­tal's NICU.