A 51-year-old hospital patient, Nguyen Thi Van has stabbed a 10-day-old baby battling pneumonia in the head with a 12inch knife in Vietnam.
The victim has been left to battle for survival after the shocking attack that left the 11cm blade stuck into his brain as he slept in a hospital ward with his mother close-by.
Doctors however came to the aide of the toddler as they immediately performed a life-saving operation to remove the knife from his head.
Narrating the incident, mother of the 10-month-old baby, Vo Thi Hong Duyen, 32, said at about 3.40am, she allegedly saw Nguyen Thi Van, who shares a room with her attacking her baby with the knife.
She affirmed, “She jumped at me and we struggled and I heard a scream. “I saw my baby crying and looked to see the knife in his face full of blood. “When I started to cry, she ran away.”
Following the attack, the toodler was moved from the Vinh Long hospital to Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital where doctors carried out a three-hour lifesaving operation on him.
The Deputy Director of the hospital, Dr Dao Trung Hieu, while reacting to the incident said, “Because of the dangerous location of the blade in the brain of the child, the new-born baby might have become paralysed, suffered respiratory failure, and even died when the knife was removed.
“The baby was stabbed in the left eye socket, through the right brain but the baby’s eyeball has been left unscathed.
“However, the most worrying problem post-operative period is the risk of bleeding and an infection recurrence in the brain.
“The baby boy was born on July 28 and was attacked 11 days later.”
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