Shrewsbury maternity scandal: Whistleblower reveals 'culture of fear' stopped hospital staff exposing baby deaths
A whistleblower who worked at a hospital trust where hundreds of babies died or were left brain-damaged says there was"a climate of fear" among staff who tried to report concerns.
"I believe there were significant issues which promoted risk because of principally understaffing and the culture," he said. In 2017, independent midwife Donna Ockenden was asked by then health secretary Jeremy Hunt to investigate 23 cases of concern at the Trust. The report also found repeated cases where babies hadn't been monitored correctly. Concerns raised by families were ignored, and there was a lack of kindness and compassion from staff.He should be 19 now. Instead, his mother, Kamaljit, still keeps the unworn baby clothes she bought for him.Kamaljit Uppal still keeps the unworn baby clothes she bought for her son"First thing I said in the doorway was I'd like to have a C section," she said.
"He said that he took the wrong option of delivering," she said."He even gave me a time that if he'd been delivered in the early hours, at a quarter to four, the baby would have lived a normal life.
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