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CCTV for nursery at Jubilee
BY PAUL HENRY Crime/Court Desk co-ordinator henryp@jamaicaobserver.com
Friday, September 09, 2011
SURVEILLANCE cameras are to be installed in the primary nursery at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in downtown Kingston.
The pending installation of the Closed Circuit TV system forms part of the new security measures being implemented in the wake of an incident on Saturday in which a mentally ill patient, infected with HIV/AIDS, was caught in the nursery of the maternity hospital breastfeeding another woman's week-old baby.
Disclosure about the electronic surveillance system was Wednesday made by Lyttleton 'Tanny' Shirley who chairs the board of the South East Regional Health Authority, during an interview with the Observer.
"We are going to put CCTV cameras inside the nursery and it is going to have multiple uses. It is going to be used to ensuring [proper interaction] between mother and child and nurses and the child," said Shirley. "It will also ensure that [babies] are given the required attention."
The CCTV system will eventually be replicated in nurseries in all public hospitals across the island and installed in "other sensitive areas" of public hospitals, said Shirley. The Spanish Town Hospital will be the next facility in which the system will be installed.
"We are doing this for the general safety of the mother, child and for the staff as well," added Shirley.
The mentally ill woman was at the hospital to deliver her own child when she made her way into the nursery and proceeded to breastfeed the baby. A nurse on the ward intervened in the matter and the baby was taken from the woman, who gave birth to her own child an hour later. The baby who was breastfed is being treated with antiretroviral drugs.
On Tuesday, Shirley, quoting doctors, said that there was a "very, very slim chance" of the baby contracting HIV from the brief encounter.
As part of the security measures implemented in the wake of the incident, no one outside of a medical team will access the primary nursery, with the exception of mothers and fathers. But in order to enter the area, the parents will have to be fitted with wristbands and be escorted to and from the particular child who will be wearing corresponding tags on the feet and hand.
 
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9/9/2011
Is it possible that with such laxity, some mothers might have taken home the wrong babies. I think all parents should look into DNA tests to ensure that the child they take home is really theirs. I would not trust this or any other hospital under these circumstances.
9/9/2011
A woman breast-feeding someone else's baby? Gross! How'd that happen?!
9/9/2011
y is it that something bad things to happen in Jamaica b4 they take corrective measures. CCTV is need in all the hospitals,nursing homes,schools and even the police stations..
9/9/2011
Installing cameras is a good idea, but that is only one part of the equation. Are there trained and disciplined security people to sit and keep track of activities? It's not a matter of having cameras to show who perpetrated an act. It is to assist personnel in supervising and immediately taking corrective action to ensure everyone's security.
9/9/2011
I think, this goes to show the level of interest shown in the lives of the jamaican people by our government. these cctv should have been put in place a long time ago to help in safe guarding patients and staff. The government is too short sighted, they wait until something goes wrong before any effort is put in to improving anything. shame on you our government and shame on us as a people for standing by to let such a terrible thing happen to a innocent child.
9/9/2011
It seems these people think the CCTV camera can get up and prevent intruders from getting in the nursery. Hello Mr Shirley smaddy haffi dey dey a watch the camera AT ALL TIMES anyways and it wudda suit yu fi have CCTV watchman make that WATCHMEN at more dan one point AT THE SAME TIME.
So tek mi advise SECURE THE BLASTED DOOR to the nurery
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