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Doctors and assistants caught by police for injuring newborn's face and neglecting with 'self-feeding'

Obstetricians and staff members who injured newborns during cesarean section surgeries or left babies unattended with only bottles in their mouths were caught by the police. The photo shows a sleeping baby in the newborn room of a hospital located in Seoul.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Soyoung] Obstetricians and staff at a maternity hospital were caught by the police for injuring a newborn during a cesarean section and neglecting babies by only giving them bottles.

On the 2nd, the Gimpo Police Station in Gyeonggi Province announced that they had booked Doctor A and Director B of a maternity hospital in Gimpo without detention on charges of professional negligence causing injury and sent them to the prosecution with a recommendation for indictment.

Nurse assistants C and three others were referred to the prosecution on charges of violating the Child Welfare Act.

A and B are accused of injuring the area around a newborn's eye with a scalpel during a cesarean section at a maternity hospital in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, in February 2019.

Investigations revealed that they did not specify this fact in the medical charts after the surgery and instead minimized and concealed it.

Nurse assistants C and three others are accused of leaving newborns at the hospital last year to feed only with bottles and neglecting them to drink formula alone 11 times.

In September of last year, after receiving a complaint from parents who gave birth at the hospital, the police secured and analyzed internal closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage and confirmed these facts.

At that time, a former employee of the hospital posted on the Blue House National Petition Board, appealing, "There is a need for strong laws and systems to punish hospitals like this that allow self-feeding, place multiple babies in incubators, and fail to properly inform mothers even when injuries occur during delivery."