On December 16, 2017, four newborns died one after another in South Korea's Lihua female damudong hospital. The collective death of newborns caused social concern for a while. Recently, it was found that the cause of the death was due to the use of the same bottle of fat emulsion by medical staff to inject multiple patients.
Causes of neonatal death in Hangu
No matter which hospital, doctors and nurses should know the principle of aseptic operation, but the medical staff of this hospital in South Korea injected the same bottle of fat emulsion to multiple patients. At present, it can be determined that four newborns died consecutively, which has a direct relationship with nurse A. at present, the nurse has been transferred to the Korean prosecution for the crime of treating death due to business negligence.
Because the medical insurance coverage of fat emulsion is 2 bottles of fat emulsion per child, but for many newborns, fat emulsion must be injected every day. As a result, nurses can only distribute one bottle of fat nutrition to more than one baby. This is the practice of the hospital since its establishment. For the so-called medical reimbursement, medical workers directly ignore the minimum aseptic operation rules in medical operation. This led to the death of four babies in a row in one day.
The cause of collective death of newborn in South Korea
Now, although the cause of the collective death of newborns has been investigated clearly, for the parents of children, it is difficult to heal the pain of losing their new born children. No matter in Korea or in any country, practitioners in the medical industry should have the most basic professional quality. People's lives should be put in the first place, not the so-called money interests, whether it's injection of drugs or operation.
Collective neonatal death in South Korea
South Korean newborn collective cause of death, the incident is to the majority of medical workers sounded the alarm. No matter who should follow the aseptic operation, otherwise it will face the irretrievable result.