Sudbury, Ont., Hospital Where Baby Was Taken to Start Tagging Infants
Posted on: Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 18:00 CST
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
SUDBURY, Ont. - A northern Ontario hospital from where a baby girl was abducted this month will implement an infant-tagging system by Christmas.
Infants at the Sudbury Regional hospital will be outfitted with bracelets that trigger doors and stairwells to lock automatically if a baby is taken.
The new measure follows a review of security at the hospital after the day-old baby went missing for several hours on Nov. 1.
An Amber Alert was issued and the girl was found several hours later in Kirkland Lake, a town about five hours away from Sudbury.
Brenda Batisse, a 29-year-old mother, is charged and was denied bail in court Tuesday.
The hospital will also post a security guard to the maternity ward and require a baby's "support person," for example the father, to wear an identifying arm band.
Source: Canadian Press
Related Articles
- Stroke Patients Who Reach Hospitals Within “Golden Hour”
- The T SystemEV(R) Helps Georgia Hospital Cut Two Hours Off Average Emergency Department Stay
- Hospital Baby Snatcher Gets 5 Years
- What Are the Odds? Friends Give Birth to Leap Year Babies Within Hours of Each Other
- Aunt Defends Woman Accused of Abducting Day-Old Infant From Hospital
- Police Issue Amber Alert for Newborn Girl Taken From Hospital in Sudbury, Ont.
- Hospital: Baby is Deformed at Birth
- NHS 24 Nurse: I Tried to Reassure Teenager Girl Was Rushed to Hospital Just 12 Hours Later, Inquiry Told
- Hospital Babies in Mrsa Alert
- Off-hours hospital visit delays heart treatment
 |
 |
User Comments (0)
RSS Feeds