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Child loses thumb at Gurgaon day-care. Mother's angry FB post goes viral

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DailyBiteMay 10, 2016 | 17:19

Child loses thumb at Gurgaon day-care. Mother's angry FB post goes viral

In a Facebook post (reproduced below) which has gone viral since it was posted on the night of February 9, Shivani P Sharma narrates the extremely traumatic series of events that she, and her three-year-old daughter Myra, had to go through because of severe negligence of the owners of a Gurgaon-based crèche called Cherub Angel.

Sharma's daughter Myra met with an accident at the day-care centre which resulted in the amputation of her right thumb. But the owners of Cherub Angel, the couple Archana and Prashant Benjiwal, according to Sharma, have been neither cooperative, nor even apologetic, and in fact have threatened Sharma to "do whatever she wants".

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Suffice to say that this gross neglect and irresponsibility is unbecoming of a day-care centre, and can we really trust our kids with such a careless bunch?  

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Can we trust the day-care centres with our kids?

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I want to report the utter negligence of day-care owner Archana Benjiwal and her staff in running and taking care of kids.

She has been the reason for our suffering from last week onwards.

I am sure she and her staff haven't mentioned any of this to other parents because it is all her mistake.

I have already registered an FIR at PS 56 Gurgaon and I promise you Archana, as your husband Prashant told us to go to police and do whatever we can, I will fight till we get you the right treatment which you deserve.

She not only behaved negligently but later tried to fool our family by pretending to be concerned. Yet that is the reason she has not appeared to even look at how Myra is doing now.

I will make sure this message reaches all the parents whose kids are coming to your day-care so that no other kid has to suffer such pain because of hypocrites like you and your husband. So that no one even thinks of putting their kids to your day-care. You challenged me that I can't do anything but I'll let all parents decide if they want similar treatment for their children in future.

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I want to write this to all the parents whose kids are going to Archana Benjiwal's day-care, Cherub Angels, to read through the complete incident given below and decide for yourself.

On April 28, 2016, I dropped my daughter around 12:30pm at Cherub Angels day-care. At 1pm, when I had just reached my office, I got a call from her school teacher Aarushi that there is an emergency and my three-year-old daughter had hit her right thumb.

I rushed to Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon, at 1:30pm, and when I reached the hospital's emergency ward, I was told that she had had a thumb amputation.

That means the top half part of the thumb had been crushed and cut. I was told that another kid, Kartik, pushed the door shut and her thumb came in between.

Can you believe the situation when my three-year-old is in front of my eyes, bleeding? The resident plastic surgeon told me that nothing could be done to the broken thumb but only a surgery to close the cut.

Which means for her whole life she will never have a full thumb nor any nail, instead she will have a round cut finger.

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I rushed to paediatrician Dr Hemant Gogia as I had always consulted him in past. He named Dr Khazanchi in Medanta hospital for second opinion.

I rushed to Medanta Emergency Plastics department and met Dr Khazanchi who is known for his 15-plus years of service. He asked to be shown the amputated part.

His team of doctors saw the whole case and operated my daughter at around 6pm. She had a hand surgery by well-known hand surgeon Dr Aditya Agarwal.

During this whole time I was alone as my husband was out of country.

According to doctors, we need to wait six weeks to see if surgery is a success, or else they will try out some other procedures.

But the real face of Archana and Prashant came to picture only after a day of this incident. Her husband came to our house on May 1, 2016 apologising and saying that they would completely bear the expense of all treatments as it is their mistake. But since then we have not seen nor heard back from them.

When I asked Archana to come to Medanta to pay for her second surgery she started making all excuses like she has her school to take care of, have to pick and drop other kids. She can't leave kids to another teacher Rajni as she is there till 6pm only.

I am sure just like Asmi's mom, many other parents can confirm that she has left her school to other staff many times in past when had to visit her relatives or for her holidays.

Also she said that she can only pay us by cheque and would need original hospital bills with my ID proof and photograph to add to her school records that they made these payments. But on actual day of surgery she didn't even pick our phone.

On May 6, 2016 when we called them her husband threatened us and said, "Don't come to our house!" and that we can do anything and contact police if needed.

These people are so heartless and unprofessional that they are not even scared of god, law and society.

To top it all, Archana told me that it was an accident and it can happen with anyone. Even she can't prevent this.

I want to request all parents to think again today before dropping your kid to her day-care Cherub Angel. Nothing is more precious than our kids.

We mothers work for goodwill of our kids so that we can better their lives, not to put them in danger.

I know it is every easy to get fooled by this pair of husband and wife. We were fooled but you can save your kid.

PS: If you are with us, fight against these heartless people.

PS: I will fight Archana and Prashant till the end but law and goodwill is above all.

Last updated: May 10, 2016 | 17:19
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