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When you either have kids or choose to work with them, you've got to be able to cope with them. Whether or not they're annoying, it doesn't matter, Can't take it? Don't have them and don't work with them. Simples.
Taping a dummy in a babies mouth is nothing short of gagging it. Vile, disgusting, despicable and inhuman. I hope the "member of staff" faces criminal charges.
A member of staff has been suspended after a dummy was found taped to a baby's face at Stafford Hospital.
Staffordshire Police said it happened earlier this month and the baby was four months old at the time.
Colin Ovington from Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
said: "Fortunately, the baby was unharmed. We have a zero tolerance
approach to poor patient care."
The trust is at the centre of a public inquiry into serious failings of care.
Apology to family
In a statement, Staffordshire Police said officers were
investigating a complaint about a member of staff at the hospital and
liaising with the baby's family and the NHS trust.
It said: "Officers from our Protecting Vulnerable People
Department are at the very early stages of investigating a complaint
concerning the treatment of a baby boy by a member of staff at Stafford
Hospital earlier this month."
Mr Ovington, director of nursing and midwifery, said: "We
cannot emphasise strongly enough that this incident is exceptional and
apologise again to the family.
"We want other hospitals to learn from this so that we can be sure that it does not happen to any other baby."
A report following a £13m public inquiry into "appalling standards" of care at the hospital is to be published next month.
When you either have kids or choose to work with them, you've got to be able to cope with them. Whether or not they're annoying, it doesn't matter, Can't take it? Don't have them and don't work with them. Simples.
Taping a dummy in a babies mouth is nothing short of gagging it. Vile, disgusting, despicable and inhuman. I hope the "member of staff" faces criminal charges.
