Hospital sends toddler home with plaster cast on wrong leg

A toddler with a broken leg was sent home with a plaster on the wrong limb and then hospital staff implied it was his mother's fault for not spotting it.

The error was made when Bella Powell took 21-month-old son Rafe to Torbay Hospital after he fell from his high chair at his Brixham home.

On returning to get the error resolved, Mrs Powell was laughed at by staff and told she should have said something.


The hospital has apologised for the mistake and the comments made by staff.

"It was all quite an ordeal, with Rafe crying as they held him down while they tried to plaster his leg," Mrs Powell said.

"I couldn't believe my ears when the doctor tried to say it was my fault and why hadn't I said - I felt absolutely awful."