{"id":17871,"date":"2024-12-06T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/?p=17871"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T07:26:52","slug":"what-we-know-for-sure-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/what-we-know-for-sure-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT WE KNOW FOR SURE, WHAT WE KNOW, AND WHAT WE DON’T KNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What happened following the scandal in the Neonatal Unit<\/strong> of the Emergency Hospital<\/strong>\u2014deprived of required legal permissions, an approved architectural project, a legal electrical system and an officially appointed Chief Physician\u2014during the construction of which a labourer died and the ribbon of which was cut by AKP<\/strong> (not to forget that the hospital is also not included in the framework of the Ministry of Health Organisation Law<\/strong>) is as heavy on our conscience as the incident itself.<\/p>\n

While the fact that the incident was kept hidden from the families by the Ministry of Health and the police from the very first day, and that the family of baby Mihrimah was not even informed about the death of their baby (so that it would not leak to the press) is as clear as daylight, we only ended up talking about \u2018the five nurses\u2019…<\/p>\n

There are a couple of strange aspects to this story: Those who spew hatred against the nurses and consider them as the only ones to blame, and those who try to protect the nurses.<\/p>\n

Journalists who think they know everything about the labour process, especially men\u2026<\/p>\n

The rating wars of frenzied social media influencers who do nothing but provoke the society and spread hatred…<\/p>\n

And in addition to these, while there is the \u2018medical\u2019 dimension of the issue\u2014which should had been questioned from day one, and which was purposefully kept away from the agenda of both the society and the press\u2014awkward statements coming, in unison, from physician unions and associations.<\/p>\n

In this incident, there are things we are sure of, things we know, and things we do not know the answer of, and need to ask.<\/p>\n

What we are sure of;<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the aftermath of such a scandal, Hakan Din\u00e7y\u00fcrek, the Minister of Health, who has political and bureaucratic responsibility even if he may not have been practically involved in the incident; Adil \u00d6zy\u0131lkan, Chief Physician of Dr. Burhan Nalbanto\u011flu State Hospital, to which the Emergency Hospital is officially affiliated, and Erol U\u00e7aner, the so-called Chief Physician of the so-called hospital, should had resigned.<\/p>\n

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What we know;<\/strong><\/p>\n

That, from what the nurses told their lawyers; the autopsies and tests performed on the deceased baby Mihrimah, and six other babies who were fighting for their lives, ethyl alcohol was mixed into the formula of the babies, resulting in the babies getting sick.<\/p>\n

Additionally, information on who the nurses working during that shift were\u2014and even who put the alcohol in the kettle and who fed the babies\u2014and that the ethyl alcohol was brought to the unit in a water bottle…<\/p>\n

What we don’t know<\/strong><\/p>\n