Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is be­ing cau­tious when it comes to an­swers for par­ents of ba­bies who died at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal’s (PoS­GH) Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU).

Six months af­ter eight ba­bies died from bac­te­r­i­al in­fec­tions at the NICU, some par­ents say they feel for­got­ten and aban­doned.

How­ev­er, Deyals­ingh said par­ents should al­low the le­gal process to take its course.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, who is rep­re­sent­ing over one dozen fam­i­lies, is­sued pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ters against the North­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) for med­ical neg­li­gence.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia out­side the Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, the Health Min­is­ter said, “Le­gal pro­ceed­ings have be­gun, I would not like to say any­thing in the pub­lic do­main to jeop­ar­dize those fair pro­ceed­ings... I have al­ways, from the be­gin­ning, ex­tend­ed my deep­est con­do­lences and I con­tin­ue to do so, but now that the le­gal process has been en­gaged, let the le­gal process work.”

Asked what par­ents should do in the in­ter­im, he re­peat­ed, “Let the le­gal process work.”