Santos Silva Hospital, Vila Nova de Gaia.
In the morning, the court decided that the child would go to a foster family; In the afternoon, her mother took her from the Gaia hospital.
One baby four months was hospitalized in the pediatrics service of the Hospital de Vila Nova de Gaia. He was going to be handed over to a host family but, the day before, the biological mother took her from the hospital.
The case happened in the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday, reports the – precisely the day on which the court decided, in the morning, that the child should be handed over to a foster family.
A source from Hospital de Gaia reveals that the biological mother had judicial authorization to accompany her daughter during hospitalization. But he couldn’t take her.
Thus, the mother did not respect the court order; the disappearance has already been reported to the Public Security Police (PSP).
The hospital started an internal investigation: as happens in other hospitals, all hospitalized children have a security bracelet, which beeps if they pass through the doors (which are blocked).
A The baby’s bracelet was found in the bedroom’s trash can, without any cuts or damage.. Therefore, the alarm did not go off.
This Thursday, the president of the Board of Directors of the Gaia/Espinho Local Health Unit, Luís da Cruz Matos, told journalists: “We are going to evaluate everything, we are going to evaluate the bracelet system, we are going to evaluate how it was possible for it to have been removed and we are going to carry out as many tests as we can”.
The hospital management reinforces that the mother could visit the baby. And, during a visit with mother and grandmother, the baby disappeared.
He adds that the baby was removed from her biological family due to lack of living conditions.
