Sunday, February 17, 2013

Black Nurses Banned from Caring for Child in Michigan Hospital

WOW! Hospital should have refused to accommodate the demand and told him to get the baby transferred to another hospital.

In Michigan, a neonatal nurse reports that she was removed from her job because a Swastika-tattooed father who didn’t want his daughter treated by any African Americans.

The nurse, Tonya Battle, had been working at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, since 1988. Yet when a newborn girl came into the neonatal intensive care unit recently, Battle was abruptly removed from the case because “the father told the [nurse in charge] that he did not want and African Americans taking care of his baby."

Battle is now suing the hospital for discrimination.

"She [BATTLE]was shocked, offended and in disbelief that she was so egregiously discriminated against based on her race and re-assigned," the court documents read.

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