Bahraini mother of injured girl seeks action against school to prevent child neglect

Manama : The Bahraini mother of the two-year-old girl who was injured inside a private preschool last week is demanding the authorities to prioritise her daughter’s case.

Um Fatima expressed to DT News yesterday that she’s hoping for Labour and Social Development Ministry, which is the authority in charge of nursery schools in the Kingdom, to take deterrent action against the institution that she claims  hid the truth about her daughter’s injury inside campus and delayed her treatment.

As reported earlier this week, the woman’s only child had her shoulder fractured while inside the school, was allegedly kept without receiving medical attention for a couple of hours and the mother still claims that she wasn’t informed about the cause of her daughter’s injury.

In her conversation with DT News yesterday, the mother insisted on her stance to resume legal procedures against the school “so no similar incidents would happen to any other children while at nursery schools”.

Commenting on recent statements made by Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan, stating that he considers Fatima as his own child and that the ministry is closely following up on her case, the woman said that “a serious matter like this should be dealt with prominently”.

She informed that she had met with the Child Protection Centre, which operates under the ministry’s umbrella, earlier this week and that they examined the girl.

It’s noteworthy that the matter is being investigated by the ministry as per the instructions of Minister Humaidan.

Um Fatima also reported the case to the police and hired an attorney to further follow up on its details with the legal and judiciary authorities.

This comes as she claims that the preschool wasn’t cooperating with her in regards to the facts about her daughter’s injury.

She said that the school refuse to admit that the injury was caused during school hours and declined to provide her with footage of surveillance cameras inside the school to acknowledge the truth behind her daughter’s injury.

“My daughter is deprived of living a normal life of a child her age. She can’t eat properly or play. It’s difficult for us to shower her now without her crying in pain because of the injury she sustained inside the school. We should at least be told about what happened that day,” she added.

According to several pediatrics who examined the girl’s condition, Fatima’s injury would take around a year to heal completely.