A shocking story of alleged medical
malpractice is coming out of a hospital in the southern Thai town of
Pattalung.Last Wednesday, October 26th, a 17 year old girl named only as
Poo – went in to have a baby at the hospital that was not named.
The duty doctor pulled the baby out but its head broke off.The relatives waited nervously outside the delivery room for a long time. Eventually they were told to take the expectant mother to another hospital. No explanation was given by the duty doctor.
The duty doctor pulled the baby out but its head broke off.The relatives waited nervously outside the delivery room for a long time. Eventually they were told to take the expectant mother to another hospital. No explanation was given by the duty doctor.
The family took her to another hospital
where a suction machine was used. The doctor there discovered that only
the head of the baby was in the mothers womb. The body was
missing.Shocked relatives went back to the original hospital to find out
what happened. Later it emerged that the duty doctor at the original
hospital had pulled the baby out but had decapitated it in the process
but said nothing to the relatives.Daily News further discovered that
following the delivery, a public health official had offered the family
400,000 baht in compensation.
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