Ms Giam, a mother in Singapore, found herself in an awful and traumatising situation when she brought her baby to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Novena.
Her baby was having a high fever, and she thought that the hospital staff would be able to give him the professional care and treatment that he needed. However, she is now calling them out for their incompetence.
She wrote in a long post on Facebook detailing why she feels that way.
Claims Nurses Were Incompetent
She starts off by saying that her son had an infection in both of his ears, so the doctors gave him antibiotics.
On the third day when the nurses were supposed to change his intravenous (IV) needle, they apparently did a bad job, causing the baby boy’s hand to swell up. They then had to remove the IV.
His fever lasted till the fifth day and another antibiotic was administered to him because they found bacteria in his intestines. Unfortunately, it had to be done via IV and once again, the nurses did a bad job.
How bad was the job?
Well, according to Ms Giam, the nurses’ incompetence resulted in her baby’s blood to spray. Some of his blood even got over her T-shirt.
Too Much Antibiotics Administered
If you thought that was the worst, you thought wrong.
Ms Giam was later told that they’ve made a mistake and accidentally gave her baby five times the intended dosage for his second antibiotic. And this was only told to her a week after her baby had been warded there.
This obviously worried her because while she admitted that an antibiotic overdose is not really dangerous, she couldn’t be sure that it wouldn’t “impact his little body organs in the long run”.
Traumatising Incident
She thought that these things would never happen in an “atas hospital like Mount Elizabeth” and she and her husband trusted the medical professionals to do what was best for her child, but she was proven wrong when they put her “in constant fear for [her] son’s health”.
She even claimed that this was going to “scar [her] for like psychologically.
Mount Elizabeth’s Response
Ms Giam ended the post by saying that the Director of Nursing assured her that disciplinary actions will be taken against the two nurses responsible for the incident.
She also expressed her hope that the nurses will be barred from nursing because she doesn’t want any other children to be put through the same danger because of their alleged incompetence.
As this is a one-sided account, you shouldn’t jump to conclusions.
Nevertheless, we hope that hospitals have stricter measures to ensure such incidents don’t happen and that Ms Giam’s son will recover soon.
