At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the par­ents of ba­by Amelia Williams are call­ing for full dis­clo­sure on what if any changes were made to de­tails con­tained in her med­ical records.

These con­cerns and oth­ers were raised in a 14-page pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter sent to the North-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the child’s death at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal ear­li­er this month.

Ba­by Amelia died on April 2 from a sus­pect­ed bac­te­r­i­al in­fec­tion and was one of 11 ba­bies who died from sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances at the PoS­GH’s Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU) be­tween Feb­ru­ary and April.

The let­ter, which was sent by at­tor­ney Sue Ann De­osaran, of Free­dom Law Cham­bers, not­ed that while the NWRHA had pro­vid­ed med­ical records on sev­en of the 11 ba­bies who have died, they were un­clear on why the doc­u­ments on the re­main­ing four in­fants were not pro­vid­ed.

“No ex­pla­na­tion has, how­ev­er, been pro­vid­ed as to why the med­ical records for the first three ba­bies who died be­fore these sev­en ba­bies, and the one ba­by who died af­ter, con­tin­ue to be sup­pressed and with­held by the NWRHA,” the let­ter read.

“The med­ical records we are in re­ceipt of to date are not in any way vo­lu­mi­nous and we are at a loss to un­der­stand why it would have tak­en the NWRHA so long to scan and email same to us.”

In a me­dia re­lease on Sat­ur­day, the NWRHA as­sured that the NICU con­tin­ued to func­tion, adding that sev­er­al pieces of “mis­in­for­ma­tion” had been cir­cu­lat­ed in pub­lic and they were un­able to cor­rect such state­ments.

How­ev­er, De­osaran, in the let­ter, said her clients, who in­clude the par­ents of oth­er ba­bies, be­lieved the fail­ure of the NWRHA to pro­vide the doc­u­ments was part of a wider plot to sup­press in­for­ma­tion from sur­fac­ing.

“How­ev­er you twist it, cut it or dis­sect it, our clients and in­deed the wider pop­u­la­tion can­not be tricked in­to be­liev­ing that it would take more than 57 days to pho­to­copy, scan and email the med­ical records for ba­by Kyrie George Bha­gan who died since Feb­ru­ary 22nd 2024,” De­osaran.

“Re­gard­less of the lev­el of in­com­pe­tence and mis­man­age­ment at the NWRHA, this sim­ple ex­er­cise would not take more than two to three hours.”

On Fri­day, it was re­port­ed that the NWRHA’s In­fec­tion Pre­ven­tion and Con­trol head, Dr Dar­rel Jones, was sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave pend­ing the out­come of in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of the ba­bies.

How­ev­er, De­osaran said, her clients con­sid­ered this a “to­ken ges­ture” and be­lieved that those in­volved may still be on du­ty with ac­cess to notes and records.

Re­fer­ring to the death of Skiye Samuel on April 9, De­osaran called for an­swers on why the cause of death list­ed was changed from sep­sis to pre­sumed sep­sis.

The let­ter sought an­swers to ques­tions re­lat­ing to who had ac­cess to the ba­bies’ med­ical records, what changes were made to the con­tents of the records, who au­tho­rised the changes and why par­ents were not no­ti­fied of these changes.