Case Filed Against Thanjavur Government Hospital Nurse

Thanjavur Government Hospital Nurse Booked: A case has been registered against a nurse who worked at a government hospital in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The hospital nurse allegedly mishandled a situation causing an injury to an infant less than a month old, according to reports.

The father of the infant, Ganesan of Kattur, filed a case in the Thanjavur West police station where the nurse has been booked under the charges of causing 'grievous injury' to an infant while performing a medical process.

The nurse named Sheela works in the Government Rajah Mirasdar Hospital, Thanjavur where Priyadarshini had a baby in a premature delivery during the last week of May. Due to some health complications, a cannula was fixed to the baby's thumb. A cannula is a piece of tube-like medical equipment that is used to deliver or remove fluid or for the purpose gathering of samples.

The nurse was supposed to remove the cannula but she allegedly mishandled the process and ended up injuring the thumb of the infant who was barely a week old. When Sheela tried removing the cannula, profuse bleeding occurred from the infant's thumb which was later stopped on the intervention of the surgeons.

According to reports, the doctors tried to restore the thumb to its original condition but failed. The Thanjavur West police have registered a case under section 338 of IPC against Sheela, as per reports.

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Lucy Letby was working as the children’s nurse at the University of Chester in 2011. In November 2020, she was arrested for the third time after an investigation that was carried out at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital.

In her two previous arrests, she was released both times without any action taken against her. The nurse is also accused of the attempted murder of five boys and five girls between June 2015 and June 2016. Her next hearing will be held in October