A baby simply left there for hours without a feeding line on cold and wet sheets. Absolutely appalling.
I find it a bit of a stretch to say that being fed would have not helped him fight off the infection. It surely weakened him a lot. And being left in cold and damp conditions on top of that. Sometimes it appears to me that the legal system tries very hard to protect the NHS from legal consequences, because of the precedent it would set.
Btw these are conditions I would expect in a government hospital in rural India, not a wealthy, industrialised country.
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Absolutely awful. They were running the nurses off their feet and mistakes were made as a result (for anyone who’s not read it: his nurse, who was supposed to be one-to-one but wasn’t, had to quickly connect a feeding tube and then run off to deliver a baby – so didn’t notice it wasn’t connected properly, and the wet bedsheets were a result of the tube leaking. The baby was meant to be fed constantly but had already gone an hour without as a delivery mistake meant they had no feeding tubes and it had taken over an hour to get them sent from a nearby ward). It’s so unnecessary.
> He asked for his son’s body to be donated to science in the hope it may prevent the same thing happening to other babies.
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A baby simply left there for hours without a feeding line on cold and wet sheets. Absolutely appalling.
I find it a bit of a stretch to say that being fed would have not helped him fight off the infection. It surely weakened him a lot. And being left in cold and damp conditions on top of that. Sometimes it appears to me that the legal system tries very hard to protect the NHS from legal consequences, because of the precedent it would set.
Btw these are conditions I would expect in a government hospital in rural India, not a wealthy, industrialised country.
Absolutely awful. They were running the nurses off their feet and mistakes were made as a result (for anyone who’s not read it: his nurse, who was supposed to be one-to-one but wasn’t, had to quickly connect a feeding tube and then run off to deliver a baby – so didn’t notice it wasn’t connected properly, and the wet bedsheets were a result of the tube leaking. The baby was meant to be fed constantly but had already gone an hour without as a delivery mistake meant they had no feeding tubes and it had taken over an hour to get them sent from a nearby ward). It’s so unnecessary.
> He asked for his son’s body to be donated to science in the hope it may prevent the same thing happening to other babies.
His parents are brave people.