Increased
security has been enforced at the National Hospital for Obstetrics and
Gynaec-ology where a two-day-old baby boy disappeared last week.
Last Thursday, a woman wearing a doctor's
white blouse took the baby from his mother's bed "for a blood test".
That was the last time she saw him. Despite
frantic searches, the baby has not been returned and police suspect it has been
kidnapped.
The baby boy was the second child of
34-year-old Tran Thi Thom from the northern province of Hung Yen.
Nguyen Bich Van, a doctor of the hospital,
said it was the first time a baby had vanished from the hospital.
Van said the hospital was crowded all day and
each medical worker had a lot of work to do and this prevented them from paying
attention to every baby going in and out of the building.
In another meeting between the hospital's
board of managers and Thom's family, deputy director of the hospital Vu Ba
Quyet promised to join hands with police in the search for the baby. While
police investigations are continuing, to date they have not found any clues.
The new regulations at the hospital include
the following:
° Hospital discipline has been made much more
strict.
° All mothers and their relatives at the
hospital must hand their babies to doctors and nurses with clear name tags with
the hospital seal imprinted.
° The list of doctors and nurses on duty is
updated every day on a board outside each room for the patients to follow.
° Mothers now have the right to refuse to hand
their babies to medical staff wearing masks.
° The process of discharging new-born babies
are now being strictly implemented.
° Guards at the hospital have been told to
check all papers carefully when a baby is taken out of the hospital.
° When a baby is taken from its bed, a
relative or friend will be asked to go with medical workers to keep a check.
Dang Van Tuyen, a guard at the hospital gate,
said that after the kidnapping, all guards were asked to be more vigilant,
especially when a baby is being discharged.
He said two to three extra guards were now
being posted at the gates.
Formerly, babies were taken out of the
hospital without anyone having to produce any papers.
But now people must produce the birth notice
and certificate of discharge from hospital.
Tuyen said the hospital's three entrances were
very crowded during the day and previously, guards could not keep an eye on
everything.
He advised mothers and relatives themselves to
be vigilant when strange people are around.
Director of the Ministry of Health's Medical
Services Administration Luong Ngoc Khue told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that
kidnapping new-born babies was a new crime.
He said a document on safe hospital discharge
for babies would be sent to all hospitals.
Kidnapping
ring
Police have rescued a baby from a kidnapping
ring that is said to share several similarities with the baby boy who vanished
from the National Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynaecology last Thursday.
The baby's father, Pham Xuan Chieu, told
online newspaper Vietnamplus that he had been asked by police to take a DNA
paternity test yesterday to help establish the identity of the baby. Police
said that they expected the results of the blood test to be known sometime
today.
Chieu said while the baby was born on the same
day as his son, there were rashes on the skin of the baby that he could not
recognise.
Hundreds of relatives and friends of the
family yesterday gathered at the hospital to demand that the hospital accept
blame for the incident.
VNS
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