Gurugram: In what could be the heights of negligence by a super speciality hospital in Delhi-NCR, a nine-month-old baby’s finger was split from her hand allegedly due to the negligence of the caretakers at a daycare centre in Gurugram’s Fortis Hospital.
The ring finger of the little toddler was caught in between a door when a maid was apparently changing her diaper.
Pique by the negligence and the extent of the baby’s injury, her mother, Bhawna Rastogi, shared the painful account in a Facebook post.
In her post, the mother of the toddler described the entire ordeal and also alleged that the administration at the Intellitots Daycare Centre at Fortis Memorial Institute, Gurgaon is ‘withholding evidence.’
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Describing the horrific incident which resulted in her daughter’s left arm immobile, the mother wrote:
“As I write this post, my baby lies beside me with her left arm immobilised and her left hand ring finger amputated as the Intellitots maid apparently shut the door on my daughter while changing the diaper while her finger got caught between the door.”
She further added, that the child underwent a major surgery and shall have few more for weeks on her road to recovery.
“We had a major surgery on 19th May at Medanta and we don’t know what will happen. This will be repeated by another one this Thursday and this procedure will get repeated maybe twice every week for 6 weeks.”
She also alleged that when they demanded to see CCTV footage of May 19, the day the accident took place, the staff replied said no footage was available.
“The CCTV got accidentally unplugged and only for that time when this happened, there is NO footage available !! They are clearly hiding the real incident and now withholding evidence!”
Read the full post here: