{"id":12414,"date":"2014-05-28T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2014-05-28T20:46:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:46:29","slug":"taping-babys-mouth-not-a-standard-procedure-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/28\/taping-babys-mouth-not-a-standard-procedure-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"Taping baby\u2019s mouth not a standard procedure &#8212; DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/newbornbaby-insidephoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12435\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/newbornbaby-insidephoto.jpg\" alt=\"newbornbaby-insidephoto\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/newbornbaby-insidephoto.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/newbornbaby-insidephoto-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/newbornbaby-insidephoto-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; After allegations that taping babies&#8217; mouths was a regular practice being done in a hospital in Cebu, the Department of Health (DOH) clarified that it is not a standard procedure in any hospital or medical facility in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Walang kaming ganoong<\/em> guidelines unless <em>may dapat gawin sa bata na kailangan ganoon ang<\/em> procedure, (We do not have any guidelines like that, unless there are certain things that need to be conducted to the child requiring the said procedure.),\u201d DOH spokesman Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy explained.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Suy also explained that the practice of taping\u00a0babies&#8217; mouths is dangerous for a newborn, adding that he does not know any institution doing the same practice.<\/p>\n<p>The baby\u2019s mother posted pictures of her newborn with tape on her cheeks and mouth to secure a pacifier, making the incident viral on social networking sites.<\/p>\n<p>Though the incident happened last February, the pictures were posted on May 24.\u00a0The mother explained that he posted the pictures to expose the hospital\u2019s malpractices.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH regional office and the Cebu hospital\u2019s officials are already conducting an investigation on the incident.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from GMA News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; After allegations that taping babies&#8217; mouths was a regular practice being done in a hospital in Cebu, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,37,95],"tags":[1716,489,2944,4262],"class_list":["post-12414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-health","category-news-ph","tag-baby","tag-cebu","tag-hospital","tag-taping-mouth","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}