A bizarre news…
A woman carefully packed her son’s severed fingertip in ice and rushed it to the hospital hoping that doctors would be able to re-attach it.
However, a hospital staff took one look at it and decided it could not be re-attached. He then flushed the digit down the toilet.
A flabbergasted Zuraiza Omar has lodged a police report on the incident and is claiming that Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital was negligent.
Zuraiza’s son, Muhamad Shaeidil Amir, 11, was injured on Friday when he accidentally sliced off the tip of his left forefinger while cutting off the top of a coconut with a parang at his home in Kampung Batu Menunggul, Air Putih, Pendang. [NST]
It’s not wrong if the hospital couldn’t attach the fingertip back to where it is supposed to be… but what on earth were they thinking when they flushed it down the toilet?
Hospital’s negligent? Probably… but what was the mum doing by letting an 11-year-old kid playing with a heavy knife? That is an obvious parenting negligent.
I felt sorry for the boy.