2003News

Negligent amputation?

In what El Caribe feels is either a case of negligence or a careless mistake, an eight-month-old baby went to the San Lorenzo de Los Mina Maternity Hospital to be treated for a staphylococcal infection and ended up at the Dario Contreras, where his arm was amputated. The question being raised is whether the antibiotic injection he received caused gangrene in the lower arm, thus necessitating the amputation, or not. According to El Caribe’s report, a few minutes after receiving the antibiotics, an “abnormal situation” produced itself, which resulted in the amputation of the infant’s left arm.