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OTTAWA, Canada, February 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A children’s hospital in Ontario says that it’s seeing a “disturbing trend” of babies coming to the hospital with “fractures and head trauma” in the wake of COVID-related lockdowns across Ontario and Quebec.
“In my 16 years at CHEO, I have never seen this many infants with serious maltreatment injuries,” said Dr. Michelle Ward, pediatrician and Medical Director for Child and Youth Protection at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), in a Jan. 29 press release.
Since September, CHEO says that it has seen more than twice as many children under the age of one for “maltreatment concerns, specifically fractures and head trauma.”
“The number of infants with fractures and/or head injuries for the period from Sept. 2019 to Jan. 2020 was eight. That number rose to 20 for the period from Sept. 2020 to Jan. 2021,” CHEO said in a press release.
Ward said that it’s a “stressful time for parents and caregivers.”
“We all know it takes a village to raise a child. With staying at home during the pandemic,
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