Review policies

The procedures as to how doctors and nurses handle patients in some of our provincial hospitals in the country are not right and suspicious.
It is the nurses and doctors profession to handle patients and treat them.
But in some critical situations, they need to allow immediate family members to stay as witness when it comes to complications involving mothers going into labour during child birth or surgical operations.
I know certain health policies exempt immediate families from physically witnessing surgical operations.
However, sometimes mistakes happen and hospitals cover-up because of the reprisal.
I lost my son through this negligence.
My wife went into labour for our first baby.
Since she was unable to give birth through the normal process, they performed the caesarean operation to get the baby out and consequently left him in the nursery.
This specific operation should have been done expeditiously since the fluid that holds the baby in the womb had already been ruptured.
The midwife at that time didn’t attend to her immediately as it was an emergency.
They instead blasted her with abusive words and ignored her for an hour or so until a doctor came in and rushed her to the theater for cesarean operation.
The doctor however, told me in the morning that my child died, explaining briefly about the complications the baby faced.
The complications should not have happened had the midwife attended to my wife promptly.
I see this situation as pure ignorance and negligence for the job they signed oaths to do.
The news got me and my wife off-guard.
The baby is my first biological child after waiting for 17 years to be called a daddy by my own flesh and blood.
They should have informed me in the night prior to performing the operation.
I therefore call upon the Health Department to review some of the policies covering this specific matter to ensure emergency situations are given priority.
Majority of the health professionals do their jobs diligently.
My frustration goes to the few rogue officers that are being complacent thus painting a bad picture and spoiling the integrity of the entire health professionals.

Concerned Father