As a mom of a newborn baby, Consuelo Saravia worries like most mothers about her little one. But it was baby Nikko's time in the NICU that has shaken her.
As a mom of a newborn baby, Consuelo Saravia worries like most mothers about her little one. But it was baby Nikko's time in the NICU at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip that has shaken her.The baby was only two days old and being kept in the NICU for observation because doctors were administering antibiotics. Nikko’s dad, Fidel Sinclair, went to see him and saw him crying through the window of the nursery.
He decided to record video of his new baby boy, when he captured the unthinkable: A nurse appears to roughly pick up Nikko, turn him around and slams him face first back into the bassinet."I don’t know, it just broke me," said Sinclair."I didn’t know what to do.""I told her 'I don't want you to touch my child. You just slammed him,'” Saravia recalled the conversation."She said 'Oh no, if you think I mishandled him or anything, I’m sorry.
Consuelo showed the video to the other nurses and administrators. Catholic Health, which runs Good Samaritan, told NBC New York that"upon learning of this incident, swift and immediate action was taken, including conducting an investigation and consequently terminating the individual involved. Additionally, we reported the individual to the Department of Health for further review. Keeping our patients safe remains our paramount concern.
"There were a lot of babies in there and it made me feel like if that happened to Nikko who else did that happen to," questioned Sinclair, who also said"I find it messed up that in a room like that they have all the curtains closed." Sinclair was fortunate that the curtain was lifted just enough for him to be able to see his son and for him to record what happened, especially because the parents say there were no security cameras in that room.
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