A Saskatchewan mother is looking for answers from Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital after she left her seven-month-old baby in her care and returned to find him in a full leg cast.
On April 4, Teelah Soosay visited her son Tobias Soosay who was “in good spirits and doing well,” according to a Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) news release.
Tobias was born prematurely on Sept. 1, 2021 and has been a patient at the hospital ever since.
Soosay alleges when she returned home to take care of her other children and went back to the hospital on April 7 she “was in shock and distressed” to find her baby in a full leg cast, the FSIN said.
The FSIN claims Soosay wasn’t informed about the cast or what led to the broken leg. When she asked an on-duty physician what happened, the physician said she did not know, according to the FSIN.
The FSIN is now calling on the hospital to conduct a full formal independent investigation with an FSIN-appointed health official to work alongside them.
“We are in disbelief, and we are hurt that this could happen in a hospital,” Soosay said in the news release.
“I should feel as though my baby is safe in a hospital as he is treated, but now I live in fear. I just want an answer. What happened to my baby?
CTV News has reached out to the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) for comment.
Soosay is expected to speak with reporters during a news conference planned for afternoon Wednesday.
–This is a developing story. More details to eat.