O
n Monday, 7News showed the family who had a terrible mix-up where their still-born baby was given to another family who's also had a miscarriage.
The Muschamp family complained bitterly about it saying that the Western Regional Hospital has increased their grief unnecessarily with their incompetence.
Well, the ministry sent out a release yesterday apologizing for the incident, so today, when we got a chance, we asked Ministry of Health's CEO why they've accepted blame so quickly, when no one is doing the same for the KHMH debacle.
Here's how he explained it:
Dr. Peter Allen - CEO, Ministry of Health
"The incident at the Western Regional Hospital to me was simply unforgivable and it's so terribly sad and we do send out our most heartfelt sympathies and our deepest regrets to the families affected. Now you'll understand that the Western Regional Hospital is a public hospital and the KHMH is a statutory authority so we have a little more direct control of what happens in the Western Regional Hospital - in that particular instance, we have immediately asked the Director of Health Services to conduct an investigation into the sequence of events that led to this terrible and unfortunate issue. I'm sure the Director of Health Services will be able to report on that as soon as it's finished which will be soon but it did appear to be some direct or let me say some non-observer of protocols which could be directly attributed to one or two individuals. Now without meaning to deny proper process to those individuals, I felt it important after consultation with my administrative offices at the ministry to listen to the recommendation of the Western Regional Hospital management team and to suspend one or two officers while we conduct the proper investigation into what happened - that is what we've done. But the most important thing is that I wish I could say that it never happened but it did and we are extremely sorry that it did."
The release from yesterday says quote, "The Ministry of Health reiterates that this isolated case is being addressed and has taken every necessary measure to ensure that there is not a repeat of this unfortunate incident."
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