Doctors and nurses take oaths to protect their patients and never intentionally do any harm while treating those left in their care, which is why mothers fully trust these otherwise strangers to care for their babies.
This past June, Texas mom Dana Martinez Monsarrat took her two-week-old newborn to the Children’s Health Center in Marble Falls so that she could get a routine PKU test, and since she fully trusted the doctors and nurses knew what they were doing, she stepped back and let them do what she thought was necessary.
However, before the test could be administered, baby Mila suffered second-degree burns after the nurse placed a plastic gel pack in the microwave and then applied the scalding hot gel to the delicate skin on her foot.
“I have kept quiet thinking something would be done legally about it,” Dana wrote in a post to Facebook about a month after the incident that left her baby girl horribly burned. “Nothing is being done. I have been in touch with the Texas State Medical board and they are also doing nothing. She was only 2 weeks old when this occurred. This situation has been treated like it wasn’t a big deal.”
“I have done everything I can possible for some thing [sic] to be done about this matter. And there is nothing more that can be done legally. It hurts me that the justice system has failed her. They are trying to be as quiet as possible about this. I’m done being quiet. I am one pissed off mama!”
Now, Dana is sharing her daughter’s story to warn other parents about the danger of these plastic gel packs, and is spreading a petition to ban them for use during the PKU test. “I consider myself a nice person. I consider myself a fair person. I have never been one to air my dirty laundry but I feel like something must be done about this situation,” she said. “It has been an absolute nightmare as a parent. I hope and pray no other parent or child has to ever go through what we have endured,”
Please sign Dana’s petition here if you would like to help her cause and stop the use of these gel packs.
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[Featured image: Facebook/ Dana Martinez Monsarrat]
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