T&T: Bomb threat causes evacuation of babies and mothers

Thirty-five babies, two of them listed as critical because they require ventilators, and 42 women were hastily evacuated from the Maternity Department of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital following a bomb threat from an anonymous caller late Tuesday night. Two of the women were in the labour room on the verge of delivery when the call was received. As officers from the Belmont Police Station and Fire Service Station rushed to the hospital, nurses, attendants, nursing students, trainee midwives and even mothers who had delivered had already begun rushing out. Cots were pushed and some mothers carried their babies in their arms as they exited the three floors of the Maternity Department via the stairs and elevator.