A mother has raised issue about a Durban hospital after her son lost consciousness during a CT scan when they were allegedly left unattended. PostKZN
Samantha Moodley, 38, of Phoenix, said she had to run down the passage in Life Mount Edgecombe Hospital to the trauma unit with her 10-week-old toddler’s lifeless body.Moodley, a food manager, has since lodged a complaint with the hospital’s management over alleged staff negligence.
She allegedly told her there was nothing to panic about. But the newborn’s breathing, she said, worsened.At his 10-week check-up, she took him to a clinic in Phoenix where a nurse noted his abnormal breathing.But Moodley said a doctor at Life Mount Edgcombe’s trauma unit told her he was not asthmatic.
“They asked me to hold Zachariah’s arms above his head, so the scan could be done. But while doing this, the women left. They went into an adjacent room and I could see them speaking.”“I shouted for help but no one heard me. My son’s head fell to the side, he stopped breathing and bled from the nose and mouth. I banged at the door the women were in. I tried to open the door but it was locked. They eventually opened the door and told me to go to the trauma unit.
Moodley said she was told the procedure, of placing his hands above his head, caused his airways to collapse and prevented oxygen to the heart. He spent a week in hospital.Following a response from the hospital on allegations of negligence, Moodley said: “They are making me out to look like I didn’t follow the proper procedures which is not true.”Charles Naidu, Zachariah’s father, said. “I feel that if my wife had not been an alert and quick thinking mother we would have lost our baby.
Naidoo said the CT room was equipped with a speaker to allow those in the room to communicate with the radiographer.
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