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Infant finger cutting incident: nurse to appear in court
By Apsara Kapukotuwa
A junior nurse, who had just completed her probation period of 10 months, had been interdicted pending further inquiries into an alleged incident of medical negligence while attending to an infant at the De Soyza maternity hospital.

Four lady doctors attached to the Premature Birth Unit of the hospital too had given affidavits following a complaint lodged by parents that one doctor had made a derogatory statement about the incident.

According to the complaint lodged with the Borella police by the parents of the baby girl, the nurse in question had cut off the tip of the little finger of a 5-day-old infant's left hand while cutting off a plaster.

Even though the infant was rushed to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for remedial treatment, the specialist paediatrician had been unable to re-attach the part of the finger that was cut off due to extensive damage to the nerves and blood vessels.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Mohammed Irshadeen had ordered that notice be served on the nurse to appear in court on October 4.

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