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Article: Anger over new maternity mix-up ; Two more mums have come forward to reveal a mix-up at Torbay Hospital's maternity unit after a baby in special care was given the wrong breast milk.
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- Herald Express (Torquay UK)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2008
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Two more mums have come forward to reveal a mix-up at Torbay
Hospital's maternity unit after a baby in special care was given the
wrong breast milk.
In the latest incident a baby girl in the special care baby unit
was given expressed breast milk from a different mother in October
2007.
The two mothers decided to break their silence after the Herald
Express this week revealed that a baby was given to the wrong mother
and breastfed at Torbay Hospital's award-winning maternity unit in
2005. That mother spoke out after an almost identical mix-up at
Nottinghamshire's Bassetlaw Hospital.
Torbay Hospital has now revealed that disciplinary action was
taken as a result of the 2005 mistake.
And it ...