Triplets born at 27 weeks discharged from hospital

Body by Im­ran founder Im­ran Raza­ck says his fam­i­ly’s ex­pe­ri­ence at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal has giv­en him a new ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the work done by med­ical staff in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a Face­book post, Raza­ck said his triplet sons, born at 27 weeks, sur­vived af­ter spend­ing time in the Neona­tal In­ten­sive Care Unit (NICU) at the hos­pi­tal.

“We made his­to­ry in Trinidad To­ba­go as small­est triplets ba­bies to be born in 27 weeks and sur­vived,” Raza­ck wrote.

He praised the hos­pi­tal’s med­ical teams and ad­min­is­tra­tion for the care pro­vid­ed to his fam­i­ly dur­ing the boys’ stay at the fa­cil­i­ty.

“That just goes to show how great this team is at the POS Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal is from nurs­es, con­sul­tants, doc­tors, staff and the en­tire ad­min­is­tra­tion de­part­ment that are de­ter­mined, dri­ven and strive to de­liv­er a phe­nom­e­nal ex­pe­ri­ence,” he said.

His com­ments came af­ter the POS NICU came un­der pres­sure in 2024 af­ter a bac­te­r­i­al out­break re­sult­ed in the deaths of mul­ti­ple pre­ma­ture ba­bies be­tween Feb­ru­ary and April 2024, with re­port­ed fig­ures reach­ing as high as 11 to 12 deaths.

Raza­ck said the ex­pe­ri­ence at the NICU left an im­pres­sion on him, cit­ing the pro­ce­dures and stan­dards main­tained at the ward.

“You should see how they work at the NICU up­on en­try with prop­er san­i­ta­tion wash­ing of hands up­on en­try, no phones al­lowed, no strong per­fumes or scents, prop­er­ly dressed and at­tired staff,” he wrote.

He al­so re­ferred to the con­di­tion of the ward and the med­ical equip­ment be­ing used to care for pre­ma­ture ba­bies.

“I was im­pressed with the clean­li­ness of the fa­cil­i­ties and how much in­cu­ba­tors and ven­ti­la­tors and they were about 12 oth­er pre­ma­ture ba­bies in that ward at that same time,” Raza­ck added.

The triplets were iden­ti­fied as Za­yaan, Zain and Zaidal.

Raza­ck said the fam­i­ly plans to re­turn to the hos­pi­tal in the fu­ture to vis­it mem­bers of staff who cared for the chil­dren.

“It takes a vil­lage to raise a child and they just de­liv­ered triplets,” he wrote.