An 11-day-old baby
recovering from pneumonia in Vietnam has been stabbed in the head with a
12-inch blade by a deranged patient as he lay in an incubator next to his
mother.
31-year-old Vo Thi Hong Duyen, the mother of the boy who
was stabbed, has now been discussing the tragic incident, which allegedly
resulted in 51-year-old Nguyen Thi Van stabbing her son in the head. The name
of the child has now yet been revealed.
According to Vo Thi, via the Mirror,
she awoke at 3:40 a.m. because of a noise in her hospital room. After stirring,
she looked up and spotted a “shadowy figure” that was moving towards her bed.
Her son was also laying alongside her in the bed.
Just moments after noticing the figure etching towards
her, Vo Thi then became involved in a physical altercation with Nguyen, which
ended with the catastrophic stabbing.
Vo Thiexplained.
“She jumped at me and we struggled and I heard a scream. I saw my baby crying and looked to see the knife in his face full of blood. When I started to cry, she ran away.”
4 inches of the 12-inch blade went
into the baby’s brain, and doctors in the Vietnamese soon started to
frantically assist the baby, and they eventually performed an operation that
removed it from his head. It’s since been revealed that the knife just missed
the infant’s eye.
Hospital
staff were able to grab hold of and apprehend Thi Van, and she is now being
questioned by police.
The child
was moved from Vinh Long hospital in Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh City Children’s
Hospital. This is where the operation to save his life was performed.
Speaking
about the incident, Dr Dao Trung Hieu, the deputy director of the
establishment, admitted that the baby isn’t out of the woods yet, while also
explaining just how dangerous the operation was.
“Because
of the dangerous location of the blade in the brain of the child, the new-born
baby might have become paralysed, suffered respiratory failure, and even died
when the knife was removed.”
“The
baby was stabbed in the left eye socket, through the right brain but the baby’s
eyeball has been left unscathed. However, the most worrying problem
postoperative period is the risk of bleeding and an infection recurrence in the
brain. The baby boy was born on July 28 and was attacked 11 days later.”
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