A MOTHER has blamed a hospital on Gauteng's West Rand for the death of her newborn baby.
Lindiwe Menoe, 34, of Mohlakeng near Randfontein, said while her baby boy was dying at the Yusuf Dadoo Hospital in Krugersdorp, the nurses kept telling her he was doing well.
Menoe said while she waited to hold her second child for the first time after she had given birth on October 18, nurses failed to tell her that her baby had died.
In fact, she was promised that he would soon be brought to her, Menoe said.
"I arrived at the hospital in the afternoon and at 6pm I gave birth to a baby boy. The nurses showed me the baby before taking him away, saying they would bring him back at 8pm to be breastfed.
"I was in a ward with another lady and her baby was brought to her. When I asked the nurse where my baby was, she kept saying they would bring him later," Menoe, who also has a nine-year-old daughter, continued. "They eventually told me at 4am that my baby was dead," she said.
Menoe suspects her baby had been neglected .
"My baby was fine after birth. I think they might have left him on his own. I do not understand why it took them so long to tell me that he was dead when they earlier insisted he was doing well," she said.
On October 22 at a meeting between the hospital and the family, the matron said the baby had difficulty breathing before he died, Menoe said.
"She told me that my baby had difficulty breathing at about 11pm and died at 2.15am,"
Gauteng health department spokesman Simon Zwane said the Yusuf Dadoo Hospital had launched an investigation into the baby's death after Menoe had complained.
"On completion of the investigation the necessary disciplinary action will be taken if the healthcare workers are found to have been guilty of the allegations," Zwane said. - selebim@sowetan.co.za
Hospital blamed for baby's death
A MOTHER has blamed a hospital on Gauteng's West Rand for the death of her newborn baby.
Lindiwe Menoe, 34, of Mohlakeng near Randfontein, said while her baby boy was dying at the Yusuf Dadoo Hospital in Krugersdorp, the nurses kept telling her he was doing well.
Menoe said while she waited to hold her second child for the first time after she had given birth on October 18, nurses failed to tell her that her baby had died.
In fact, she was promised that he would soon be brought to her, Menoe said.
"I arrived at the hospital in the afternoon and at 6pm I gave birth to a baby boy. The nurses showed me the baby before taking him away, saying they would bring him back at 8pm to be breastfed.
"I was in a ward with another lady and her baby was brought to her. When I asked the nurse where my baby was, she kept saying they would bring him later," Menoe, who also has a nine-year-old daughter, continued. "They eventually told me at 4am that my baby was dead," she said.
Menoe suspects her baby had been neglected .
"My baby was fine after birth. I think they might have left him on his own. I do not understand why it took them so long to tell me that he was dead when they earlier insisted he was doing well," she said.
On October 22 at a meeting between the hospital and the family, the matron said the baby had difficulty breathing before he died, Menoe said.
"She told me that my baby had difficulty breathing at about 11pm and died at 2.15am,"
Gauteng health department spokesman Simon Zwane said the Yusuf Dadoo Hospital had launched an investigation into the baby's death after Menoe had complained.
"On completion of the investigation the necessary disciplinary action will be taken if the healthcare workers are found to have been guilty of the allegations," Zwane said. - selebim@sowetan.co.za
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