er first special day as a full-fledged mother was not pleasant. Jasmine, 31, yesterday — Mother’s Day — faced the media to expose what she claimed was the abuse her then five-day-old son experienced at the hands of healthcare workers in a hospital in Cebu City. Jasmine said she and her family were outraged when they saw her baby boy’s mouth taped shut with a piece of surgical tape when they went to the nursery for a visit. “I was really bothered when I saw the plaster that sealed my son’s mouth. The ends of the plaster almost reached my son’s ears,” she told the reporters. She said she initially thought that her son was intubated (gi-oxygen), but when she asked the healthcare worker on duty about the bandage, she allegedly received the answer that they had to tape the baby’s mouth as she wouldn’t stop crying and was “noisy”. They took a photograph of the baby and posted the picture on a social networking site. The picture started going viral yesterday. Jasmine said ...
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 03:43:24 +0000
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