Nurse suspended for using superglue to seal child's wound

A caregiver astatine a authorities infirmary successful southern India has been suspended for utilizing commercialized adhesive alternatively of stitches to dainty a child’s wound.

The incidental occurred connected 14 January erstwhile Gurukishan Annappa Hosamani, 7, was brought to the Adoor Primary Health Centre successful Haveri territory of Karnataka state. The kid was reportedly bleeding from a coiled connected his cheek.

The nurse, identified by section media by her archetypal sanction Jyoti, reportedly told the parents utilizing the adhesive would forestall scarring connected the child’s look and claimed that she had been practising this method of closing wounds for years.

Concerned by the nurse’s response, the child’s parents recorded a video successful which she tin beryllium heard saying: “I thought applying Fevikwik would beryllium a amended solution, and if it didn’t enactment we would person referred him for further treatment.”

Fevikwik is simply a fashionable multipurpose adhesive brand.

The parents besides filed a ailment with the Health Protection Committee.

The video sparked nationalist outrage, prompting territory wellness authorities to intervene. But alternatively of suspending the caregiver for aesculapian negligence, they transferred her to different wellness installation connected 3 February, causing a caller question of anger. That is erstwhile she was suspended.

“If a caregiver tin instrumentality specified a determination truthful lightly, ideate the risks successful different distant wellness centres,” an unidentified section activistic told the quality outlet South First.

In a connection connected Wednesday, the Commissioner’s Office of Health and Family Welfare Services said: “Fevikwik is an adhesive solution not permitted for aesculapian usage nether regulations. In this case, the unit caregiver liable for dereliction of work by utilizing Fevikwik for the child’s attraction has been suspended pursuing a preliminary study and pending further probe arsenic per rules.”

The erstwhile day, relatives of the caregiver had gathered astatine the infirmary and demanded her suspension beryllium cancelled, The New Indian Express reported. “No harm has been caused to the kid and suspension should beryllium revoked,” a comparative of the caregiver was quoted arsenic saying.

The kid is reported to beryllium successful bully wellness and authorities are monitoring for immoderate adverse effects.

“Fevikwik should not beryllium utilized connected immoderate wounds,” Dr MS Mahesh, a integrative surgeon astatine Aster CMI Hospital successful Bengaluru metropolis told the South First. “Though it whitethorn not origin overmuch harm if utilized connected the aboveground of the skin, utilizing the adhesive wrong deeper cuts whitethorn origin infections and different complications. A medicated superglue could person been utilized if the chopped was superficial.”