COURT SHUT DOWN
Extracted from the Trinidad Express
EXODUS: Staff members of the San Fernando High Court leave yesterday, after reports that a police officer working at the court had contracted the H1N1 virus. The officer is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the San Fernando General Hospital. Court proceedings were disrupted after news spread that the officer had been infected.
-Photo: DAVE PERSAD
OPERATIONS at the San Fernando High Court came to a standstill yesterday as word spread that a police constable attached to the Court and Process branch had contracted the H1N1 influenza virus or swine flu and was critically ill.
The officer, of Penal, was at work up until last Friday and was admitted on Saturday to the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) where he was being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
The three criminal courts, to which the officer was assigned, were the first to be suspended followed by the Civil Courts "as a precaution".
By 2 p.m., most of the other members of staff had left work.
Sitting in the Second Assize Court, Justice Anthony Carmona told jurors that confirmation had been received by the court of the officer's condition.
He said the court learnt that the 27-year-old officer was vomiting blood and his breathing was being assisted by a ventilator.
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