So delicate, so fragile
Won't you feel sorry for these strong women?

What's the IQ ceiling here?

A refugee family is set for a multi-million-pound NHS payout because a mother spoke no English and hospital staff did not explain to her how to care for her newborn in her native language.

The child of the Rajatheepan family, originally from Sri Lanka, has been left with severe brain damage because midwives did not explain the importance of feeding the newborn regularly, a judge has ruled.

Here's what the judge said:

Judge Martin McKenna said medics failed to overcome the language barrier, which directly resulted in the baby suffering the catastrophic injuries.

Yeah, it's the responsibility of a hospital in England to understand and communicate in hundreds of alien languages. To expect satisfactory knowledge of the same one language from each foreigner would be, of course, racisss!

But really, if you don't know that feeding a baby is necessary, then the language wasn't the main issue.

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