Blaming game

When you work in Klinik Kesihatan you meet different kinds of people every day. Most of the time you can appreciate the different view from other people, but sometimes you will just open your mouth in disbelief and close it because you lost word to comment anything.

Last week I had an U5M (Under 5 Mortality). A 9 months old boy with no comorbid was the victim. On the first day when the news was out, people blamed the babysitter. The next thing you know, just the next day, people blamed the parents.

Who to blame and why the blaming game? Initially, when the news said the baby had bleeding in the brain, possibly due to 'Shaken Baby Syndrome', of course, people will accuse the babysitter because the baby was under her care during the incident. The next day after the postmortem, it was said that there was bleeding but was not due to abuse. No evidence of physical abuse was found. Also in the news was mentioned that the child had fever for 3 days prior to the incident. Just after the news was out, people changed their mind, the parents were the suspects then.

I had the chance of meeting the parents a few days after the incident. The baby previously was under the care of our clinic and I was supposed to make the report for this case. The parents looked strong and gave full cooperation. They wanted justice for their baby, at the same time they accepted the fate. Must be so hard for them, their first child, the only child :(

I didn't manage to meet the babysitter yet. The nurses and I did plan to meet her but she went back to her hometown. The pressure of people accusing her to cause the death of the baby may cause her to be stressful and down. So for now. we didn't get the other side of the story from her.

Thing is for a high profile case like this, people nowadays like to add spices and flavor in their comments and posts. They blame and accuse and punish like they are God. Everyone has their own opinion but if you don't know the whole story, wouldn't it better if you just keep whatever accusation you have in your own head?

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