The infant daughter of a prominent attorney is one of the latest swine flu victims to require urgent treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital.

The two-year-old child was on a ventilator yesterday, brought to hospital at the weekend by her father, who was a former senior official of the South West Regional Health Authority.

She is one of several new cases where patients are suspected of having the Influenza A/H1N1 virus, which has killed four people and sickened an unknown number of citizens.

The deaths have all happened in South Trinidad and health officials have established a common link-all were overweight. The four all died in the hospital ICU.

Many of the suspected swine flu patients are being treated on a special ward, according to a senior hospital official.

And anyone suspected of having the virus is being screened in an isolation tent set up outside the ambulance bay of the Accident and Emergency Department.

Yesterday a meeting was held and officials reported that it is taking too long to get confirmation results from the Public Health Laboratory.

’We have tests taken since October 14 for which we have not received the results,’ a source said.

Meanwhile, several cases of elective surgery have been cancelled due to staff shortage.

’We have heard about the cancellations and [are] conducting internal investigations,’ said an official.