Nashville, Tenn. - A Tennessee family says their newborn daughter suffered serious burns after a piece of hospital equipment malfunctioned.
A screw from a heat lamp somehow came loose and fell onto baby Aminah, leaving serious burns.
“My baby shouldn’t have had to go through that,” her father Sean Boyd told WSMV.
The baby’s mother is still in the hospital.
She said she planned to take pictures of Aminah and had a special outfit for her, but now they can’t dress the baby at all for fear of irritating or infecting the burns.
The hospital issued a statement saying in part:
Boyd said he plans to take legal action.