New York nurse fired after parents captured video of her slamming 2-day-old baby in a hospital bassinet | Business Insider

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The nurse involved, who remains unnamed, is being investigated by the Suffolk County Police Special Victims Section and the Department of Health. | BISouthAfrica

Consuelo Saravia and Fidel Sinclair recently welcomed a baby, named Nikko, when they went through a"heartbreaking" ordeal at Good Samaritan University Hospital on Long Island, the outlet reported on Friday.

of his newborn just as a nurse picked him up, swiftly flipped him over, and slammed him face-down into the bassinet, the outlet reported. He showed the video to his wife, who immediately confronted the nurse and shared the video with other hospital staff. A spokesperson for Catholic Health, who runs Good Samaritan University Hospital, said in a statement to Insider on Sunday that patient safety is"our paramount concern."

The spokesperson added that it is standard practice for staff to draw the"curtains in the neonatal ICU to provide privacy for the patients and their families.""I didn't know what to do with myself. I didn't sleep for like three days. It was just really horrible," Nikko's grandmother, who asked to be unnamed, told"If it wasn't for God who sent me to check on him, we would have never seen any of that happen," Sinclair told NBC New York.

 

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