A mother has taken her fight against a daycare centre in Gurgaon to a social networking website after her three-year-old daughter’s thumb was crushed at the daycare centre and had to be amputated.
In a post, shared by as many as 11,000 Facebook users, the mother says that she was determined to highlight the “utter negligence” and the “real face” of the daycare owners after they refused to take her phone calls and even challenged her to do anything in her capacity.
She woes to “fight till the end” and also makes an emotional appeal to the readers to share the post if “you are with us to fight against these heartless people”. The incident happened on April 28, says Shivani P Sharma, who has filed a First Information Report against the daycare owner at Sector 56 Police Station here.
The police said that a notice has been sent to the daycare owners to join the investigation.
In the post that has received more than a hundred comments, Ms. Sharma says that half an hour after she dropped off her daughter Myra at the daycare, “Cherub Angel”, she received a call from a teacher about an “emergency”. She was told that her daughter had hit her right thumb and was in a hospital.
When Ms. Sharma reached the Artemis Hospital, she found that her daughter’s thumb had been amputated. She was told that another kid had pushed the door close and her finger came inside. “Can you believe the situation when my three-year-old is in front of my eyes bleeding? The resident plastic surgeon told me that nothing can be done to a broken thumb but only a surgery to close the cut. This means for her whole life she will never have a full thumb nor any nail, instead she will have a round cut finger,” reads the post.
She then took a second opinion from a paediatrician at Medanta Hospital and a team of doctors from the hospital operated upon her daughter. During this time, Ms. Sharma was all alone as her husband was out of country. “But the real face of the daycare owner came to picture only after a day of this incident. Her husband came to our house on May 1 apologising and saying that they would completely bear the expense of all treatments as it was their mistake. But since then we have not seen nor heard back from them. When I asked Archana to come to Medanta to pay for her second surgery she started making all excuses...She said that she could only pay us by cheque and would need original hospital bills...but on actual day of surgery she didn’t even pick our phone,” reads the post.
