Medical Students Accidentally Cut Newborn Baby’s Penis Instead Of Umbilical Cord

BUNGLING medical students were said to have cut off part of a newborn baby’s penis after mistaking it for the umbilical cord. Doctors tried to keep the incident from the parents who were told their son had suffered “a minor accident”. But the new dad grew suspicious after being denied access to see his baby for more than two hours after his wife gave birth. He then discovered clumsy medical students had accidentally cut a part of his son’s penis. The organ was sewn back together by a surgeon but the baby’s penis ended up with three separate cuts.

Angry Diego Rangel Izaguirre, said “When my child was born and they cut his umbilical cord, they injured his penis. “And unfortunately, when the surgeon started sewing it, he made other two new injuries, almost two centimetres deep.” The baby’s mum, Zulem Contreras said: “This shouldn’t have happened, students should not have been looking after him.” The couple have made an official complaint but officials at the hospital in Coahuila, north-eastern Mexico, claim the newborn is healthy and that the operation was minor and the parents consented.