Deeply disturbing treatment of babies

[Freckle]

Report on the BBC site of how babies are treated in a Russian hospital here .

Pretty crap start in life and then this happens to them. Makes you cry.

OMG. How horrible. Poor things

Oh this is fecking awful, i wish i hadnt seen it!

Utterly disgusting.

Why do people get jobs in this kind of environment if they just cant hack it?

Makes you shudder

i heard this on the news, how can they be so uncaring? it's so sad

That is horribleand just wrong. And can have lasting effect, too
When I was a little Baby (3month old) I had a Hospital stay of 3 month. And it was in the days where the parents weren't allowed to stay, and my mum was only allowed to see me through the glass window...and of course Baby's in Hospital would only be picked up for feeding, etc..on a rota, etc...and in that time I started to rock myself to sleep, and I still do that now (I am 36 years of age)...I can't get off to sleep without rocking myself...how sad is that...!
I also lost loads of weight in that time, even though I was tubefed, and calorifically speaking I got more then ever (I was born with a cleft lip and palate, and feeding me was of course difficult normally), which just goes to show that it takes more then calories to thrive
Anyway, sorry went off on one a bit...!And of course it's not the same, as no one actually mistreated me, was more a thing of the time

But agree with VVV, you shouldn't work in a care environment if you don't care for caring.

3andnomore that's so sad, i didn't realise the parents weren't allowed to stay then.

My mother had to have her tonsils out (as everyone did in those days) at about age 4 and she was allowed 2 visits in the 2 weeks she was in hospital.

So sad

its so depressing to see, as bad as the baby girls dumped in china

southea, luckily things have changed now...Hospitalstays/ Medical treatment is scary stuff for a Kid (anyone really) anyway, without the added stress of being unable to see your parents.
Also, luckily a 3 month stay for teh surgery that I had would be unthinkable, Kids are in and out in a few days.
I can only imagine what those poor Baby's in Russia are going through!

I just saw this on CNN. It is disgusting. I hope someone is prosecuted for it, but I doubt it.

at the quote that the babies crying was disturbing the nurses work. erm, the babies ARE the nurses work!

It actually reminds me of some treatment of elderly patients I have witnessed here, where buzzers are placed out of reach because the nurses are fed up of the elderly patient keep buzzing for them.

Disgraceful the way the most vulnerable people are so often abused by those who are supposed to bloody care!

Yes, this is wrenchingly horrible. But when healthcare is treated as a status-free job withbarely-subsistence pay, it's not exactly going to attract or hold onto competent professionals. Russia's in economic metldown, the care-home industry in the UK is just not regarded as worth much funding because, well, the old people will all die off soon enough, won't they.

madamez, yes, sadly you are right, if pay would be more attractive and shiftwork would be reorganised, maybe different people would be attracted to it!Or the good ones feel that they would like to stay in the Job.