An employee of a private company was speechless when he found a newborn of a few weeks dumped and dead in the waste of the Limassol General Hospital. It was literally a horrible spectacle. A gynecologist at the hospital found that the baby pregnant by a Cypriot woman was not alive. It was deemed necessary for the woman to be rushed to the operating room where the dead newborn was born, who was in the 26th week. The parents apparently did not want to pick up the dead baby so it had to be taken to the morgue until it was buried.
Now how it ended up in the waste and who is responsible for it, so far it is not known. The management of the hospital has ordered an investigation, because if the newborn was not located by the specific employee, it would end up in the garbage.
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An employee of a private company that collects medical waste from the New General Hospital in Limassol was confronted with a horrific issue yesterday at noon. He located a 26-week-old baby, dead in a carton in the Hospital waste.
According to the exclusive report of the "Sigma" news bulletin, the employee immediately notified the Management of the company, whose management, after the first shocks, contacted the Management of the Hospital, denouncing the unacceptable incident.
At the same time, the company considered it necessary to return the newborn to the Hospital, following the assurances of the Director that he would personally undertake the legal settlement, which is none other than the funeral and burial of the dead newborn.
Asked to comment on the incredible passer-by, the Director of the Hospital, Chrysostomos Andronikou, stated that an investigation has already been ordered to determine who or which officials are responsible for this tragic mistake.
The shocking incredible story began, according to the Director of the Hospital, last Sunday, when a gynecologist found out that the baby that was pregnant with a Cypriot woman was not alive. It was deemed necessary for the woman to be rushed to the operating room where, as Mr. Andronikou stated, the stillborn baby who was in the 26th week was born.
According to Mr. Andronikou, the legal procedures state that if the dead newborn is older than 21 weeks, the doctors inform the parents about the tragic event and ask if they want to pick up the dead newborn for burial. "If the parents do not wish, as happened in this case, to receive the dead newborn, then it is transferred to the morgue until the burial is arranged, which is undertaken by the Hospital."
Explaining the procedure followed, Mr. Andronikou said that it is simple. After the Father of the Church of the Hospital is notified, who receives the dead babies that the parents do not want to take for the purpose of the funeral and burial, he proceeds to their funeral and burial.
According to the contract, the private company is obliged to collect medical waste daily in the presence of two employees of the Hospital.
These, before being received by the company, are placed in a refrigerated container and must be stored in special plastic bags or in special cartons, in which you indicate the thickness, bear a danger signal, etc.
The company is obliged, which applies, to receive medical waste by refrigerator-truck and during transport to the factory they are thrown into a closed system, which dissects them, sterilizes them, ie becomes sterile-common-waste, and then transports to landfills. .
As it turns out, that is, if the dead newborn was not located, instead of a normal burial and burial it would be shredded with other medical waste and would end up in a landfill.