Hospital glues toddler’s eye shut
Officials in the United Kingdom are investigating a couple’s claim that a nurse at the hospital where their 14-month-old son was being treated glued one of his eyes shut. The boy had gone to the hospital for a cut on his head, which the nurse was attempting to seal shut.
Mum Wendy Duff said that, before applying the glue, the nurse had told her: ‘I do tend to get this stuff everywhere.’
For four days Archie’s eye was shut tight before he had to be put under general anaesthetic and his eyelids prised open by doctors.
An investigation has now been launched into the incident at St Mary’s Treatment Centre, Milton, Portsmouth.
Mum Wendy, of Guildford Road, Fratton, said: ‘It was horrible. I was crying, and he was crying, and the nurse was telling me to sing to calm him down – but I wasn’t calm either.’
Information from: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/Investi...
