Mix-up at US hospital results in doctor performing surgery on healthy baby


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Feb 2016

Jennifer Melton's newborn son Nate was mistaken for another baby. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM WTVF VIDEO.

SINGAPORE: A mother's joy at giving birth to her healthy baby boy last week turned into a nightmare, after the newborn was mistaken for another and surgery was performed on him.

Jennifer Melton broke down in hysterics when a nurse told her that a frenulectomy had been done on her son, Nate, at the University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tennessee, following what she thought had been a routine check-up.

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