A YOUNG mother has accused the staff at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) of endangering the life of her young son, after she was given the wrong x-ray by technicians attached to that institution.According to the woman, she had reason to take her child to see a doctor at the GPH last Wednesday after he suffered a fall, from which she felt he could been injured.
After relaying her fears to the doctor, she was advised to take the child to the x-ray unit so that a film can be provided for subsequent evaluation.
The West Ruimveldt resident claimed that, after complying with the doctor’s instruction and taking the boy to do the x-ray, about half an hour later, a technician handed her a large envelope with the film.
However, when the image was taken to the doctor for examination, there was pandemonium as the medical professional was visibly baffled at the x-ray that showed the skeletal structure of an adult but not a two-year-old child.
Thinking that something else was medically amiss, the mother of two began to panic loudly and only stopped after the doctor advised her that his horrific facial expressions were based upon him noticing an obviously incorrect x-ray film.

Brief search
Nonetheless, after a brief search and query, it was discovered that another waiting adult patient was inadvertently given the toddler’s x-ray by the technicians and was, ironically, busy trying to understand the strange miniature skeletal structure of hers.
The medical staff at the hospital promptly swapped the x-rays and everything was seemingly back to normal again.
But, despite the quick resolution, the toddler’s parents were adamant that the defaulting staff members should be admonished, since they argued it could have been the same for a blood test result or any other similar situation that would have resulted in the patient receiving the wrong treatment.