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Baby’s hand amputated after problem treatment of mom at Al Baraha Hospital

Little Alaa — whose parents accuse Al Baraha Hospital of gross negligence — was shifted to Al Tawam Hospital, Al Ain yesterday.

The little baby’s distraught parents, putting the full blame on negligent doctors, insisted that if they had handled the case delicately, their baby would not have been crippled for life. Speaking to your favourite No.1 newspaper Khaleej Times from Al Ain, Usama and Tahane Odh, the parents of the little girl, said: “If we had brought our child to this hospital two to three days earlier, we could have saved her hand. Ninety per cent of the arm is gone, while another surgery on her stomach will be performed within 15 days,” said her mother. “We are definitely going to sue the doctors and file a case in court against the hospital,” she added.

Said her father Usama: “Al Baraha could have solved the case a long time ago, but they took everything lightly. At present, they are trying to shed light on the mother’s condition before she delivered rather than addressing the issue of the baby’s hand which was struck by gangrene 15 days after the birth,” he said.

Born prematurely at 28 weeks, Alaa’s parents allege that a wrongly administered intravenous saline drip resulted in the baby’s arm being infected with gangrene “an affliction that could have spread to other parts of the body unless the ailing body part was amputated.

Earlier, the Director of Al Baraha Hospital, Dr Mustafa Al Hashmi, had said that their main concern was to save the life of the child. He had also said that the mother had delayed her visit to the hospital due to which several complications had arisen for the baby. Alaa is the second child born to this Jordanian couple.

Probe begins: THE UAE Minister of Health, Mohammed Humaid Al Qutami has been following the case closely. Speaking to ‘Khaleej Times’ yesterday, he said that already investigations had started into the case. “Though I do not have detailed information, I know that a case has already been lodged with the ministry by the child’s parents, and an investigation has already been started,” he said, adding that a report on the case would be received by next week. Al Qutami also said that if the hospital and doctors were proved wrong, appropriate action would be taken against them.

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