KKH apologises for baby swap incident
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jtoh:
The problem was that the baby was mistakenly tagged from the start with two different tags. If so, the baby might have been given to the wrong mother even during the nursing stage.
I delivered eldest at KKH. I remembered the nurse asking me to verify the tags before putting them on the baby.
I don't know what's the procedure if the mother is under GA.
Still it's frightening to know that there's a possibility that a wrong tag could be used. -
slmkhoo:
Was the other baby wearing two incorrect tags? Meaning its tags identifies it as belonging to the wrong mother? If so, the discharging unit wouldn't know better and would just let the baby go home with the mother identified on the tag. But if the baby was wearing 2 correct tags, and the baby was sent home with the wrong mother, that's serious. Then the error occurred twice. Once with the tagging, where Baby 2 was tagged with two different tags, and second when the babies were discharged.jtoh:
The problem was that the baby was mistakenly tagged from the start with two different tags. If so, the baby might have been given to the wrong mother even during the nursing stage.
But the other baby had correct tags and was still discharged.
Mothers - tie a big red bow around your baby's ankle with your name and phone number big big on it.
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What’s written on the tag? I just vaguely remember something like ‘BABY TAN’. Is the mother’s IC there?
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I remembered the tags had my name and I/C number. The nurse who attended me asked me to verify both tags before putting the tags on dd1’s wrist and ankle.
I scruntised the tags. -
During my time, the bed that dd1 slept in had my particulars too. Before discharging the nurse asked me to verify the tags again. I also had a tag on my wrist and the nurse also verified my particulars.
I’m curious to find out what went wrong because there were so many chks when I gave birth in KKH. -
its possible. For all my 3 dds, their name tags kept slipping out of their small wrists and ankles… They were all delivered in KKH.
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Question is how come they printed THREE tags for Baby one?
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Last time and now... different service standards?
Cos' cheaper labour?
Can the staff read English a not?
Scarli not even PSLE English standard...
:yikes:
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Daddy
So lets get rid of all the foreign nurses and halve our healthcare work force......I'm sure the error rate will decrease.
Last time and now... different service standards?
Cos' cheaper labour?
Can the staff read English a not?
Scarli not even PSLE English standard...
:yikes:
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b2b3m4:
its possible. For all my 3 dds, their name tags kept slipping out of their small wrists and ankles.... They were all delivered in KKH.
The tags on my dd1 were very fitting. The tags on my other 2, delivered in another hospital were very fitting too.
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