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Hospital circumcises wrong baby
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top height=40>Last Updated Nov 18 2005 08:50 AM CST
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=stories>St. Boniface Hospital has suspended circumcisions of male newborns after a mix-up where the procedure was performed on the wrong baby.
Authorities say they're investigating the incident.
"We're concerned about any event of this nature because obviously a child was circumcised before his parents had a chance to make a decision and to give their consent and we will look into that," said Helene Vrignon, a hospital representative.
Vrignon said the identities of two baby boys on the same ward got mixed up. The family of the boy who was incorrectly circumcised had not yet made a decision about whether to have the procedure done, she added.
Vrignon says the hospital is working with the family and nobody working at St. Boniface has been disciplined at this point.
Arthur Schafer, an ethics consultant for the department of pediatrics and child health at the Health Sciences Centre, says the ultimate test is how the hospital deals with the situation.
"If the answer comes back that St. Boniface is a hotspot for serious medical errors, then we had better figure out quickly why this is happening and I'm sure the people at St. Boniface will be among the first to want to know why, so they can take corrective measures."
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