Baby died after being left lying on cold and damp bed sheets at Welsh hospital
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Baby died after being left lying on cold and damp bed sheets at Welsh hospital
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/baby-died-after-being-left-32964330
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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.
This wouldn’t have happened if it was a baby born to a white family. Downvote me all you want but there is clear and inarguable evidence that non-white babies and families get worse treatment from NHS hospitals
This case is disgusting and the SLT should be raked over the coals for it.
They won’t be though.
Does anybody else find it disgraceful that they’ve named an individual nurse who was working in completely untenable conditions and rushed off her feet and having to divide her time between multiple patients? I searched her name on the NMC register (she doesn’t have any restrictions on her practice btw, so our governing body still thinks she’s safe enough), and she’s the only nurse with that name in the entire country, and they’ve also given her exact place of work. They’ve essentially doxed her, as if the tragedy of this poor baby’s death on her conscience isn’t punishment enough.
This is so heartbreaking… That poor baby, and I can’t imagine what the family are going through.
This seems like a gross negligence thing more than a NHS failing type thing.
(Just to clarify I mean the hospital committed an act of gross negligence resulting in death not that the family had done anything wrong)
It’s just so overwhelmingly depressing. I know it happened in 2023 but ever since I read this article I can’t stop thinking about this poor baby left alone, in such horrible conditions during it’s first and last few hours of life. When is enough, enough? It’s been 2 years and has anything improved? What is anyone doing about it?