China midwife accidentally severs baby’s middle finger, results in reattachment surgery
Nurse admits blunder, blames newborn’s moving fingers as she cut umbilical cord; infant’s father says wife is ‘distraught’ about incident
Social media in China has been shocked and outraged by a midwife who cut off a newborn baby’s finger when severing his umbilical cord during a caesarean section.
The infant boy was born on the morning of December 25, at Xuyi County People’s Hospital in Jiangsu province, eastern China.
Two hours later, his father was told by doctors that the child’s left middle finger had been snipped by accident during the surgery, the Red Star News reported.
The baby then faced two hospital transfers before being admitted by a major health centre, Wuxi No 9 People’s Hospital, about 300 km away, where he underwent a finger implantation operation.
The nurse told the family that she made the blunder because the infant’s fingers suddenly moved when she was cutting the umbilical cord.