Hospital: Baby is deformed at birth

NST: Natasha Nadirah’s foot was not amputated but is deformed.
A spokesman for Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab 2 said the baby’s right leg was a stump at birth and was partially fused to her mother Hasnah Abdullah’s uterus lining and had to be cut free.
He refuted Hasnah’s claim that the child’s foot had been amputated during the Caesarean birth.
"The operation (to detach the stump from the womb) was done by an orthopaedic surgeon," the spokesman said. "It is impossible to amputate the foot as the tools used were different. A saw was not used."
Yesterday, Hasnah, 36, alleged that hospital staff had accidentally amputated her baby’s right foot in the operating theatre on Jan 22. The Thai national, from Alor Pasir, Tanah Merah, claimed she heard a commotion during the operation indicating that something had gone wrong.
Hasnah lodged a report at the district police headquarters after being discharged on Jan 25.
On Hasnah’s claim that the doctors placed a gas mask on her face during the operation, the spokesman said this was because the surgery took an hour longer than usual.
"Patients are usually partly anaesthetised during a Caesarean section. If the surgery takes longer than expected, patients would be fully anaesthetised. It is a normal procedure."