Three-year-old Myra's thumb was amputated after it was crushed at a daycare centre in Gurgaon.
Highlights
- Daughter's thumb crushed, had to be amputated, claims Shivani Sharma
- Ms Sharma has filed a police complaint against the daycare owner
- She says owner offered to pay for the treatment but is now making excuses
A three-year-old girl's thumb was crushed allegedly at a daycare centre in Gurgaon near Delhi and had to be amputated, her mother has said in a widely-shared post on Facebook.
The incident took place on April 28, says Shivani Sharma, who has filed an FIR or police complaint against the daycare owner.
In the post that has been shared by over 9,000 Facebook users, Ms Sharma says half an hour after she dropped off her little daughter Myra at the daycare, "Cherub Angel", she received a call from a teacher about an "emergency". She was told that her daughter had hit her right thumb and was in a hospital.
When she went to the hospital, she learnt, to her horror, that Myra's thumb had been amputated.
"It means the top half part of the thumb has been crushed and cut apart. I was told that another kid Kartik pushed door close and her finger came inside," Ms Sharma writes.
"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 can be done to 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."
Ms Sharma says the daycare owners came to her home on May 1, apologized and offered to pay for the child's treatment. "But since then we have not seen or heard back from them," she alleges.
She also accuses the owner of making excuses when she asked her to pay for her daughter's second surgery. They started avoiding phone calls and eventually threatened to go to the police, she alleges.
"These people are so heartless and professional that they are not even scared of god, law and society," she writes.
After her post, the daycare owner removed her profile and Facebook page. Ms Sharma says she will press for action against them and warns parents against unscrupulous daycares.