If the mother has severe mental illness, then it should have been diagnosed. With such a diagnosis it is difficult to understand how the mother could be left responsible for the child’s health or the child.
If there is no diagnosis, then you will have to weigh the accuracy of the 3rd hand information you received via your sister I think you said. The hospital will not talk to you or your sister unless there is a court order allowing one of you to speak on matters of health.
You and your sister, if you really fully believe without hesitation that the child’s health is endangered might contact a lawyer for a small fee to make an emergency call to the Head of the Hospital and say that family members are claiming the mother is incompetent and that a confirmation to the lawyer is needed that the child is Ok until Monday.
Many personal injury lawyers are available around the clock. An emergency call even tonight by a lawyer to the hospital will shake them up to get the real story out.
Even though you’re not responsible and have no legal authority to intervene, you are involved and your emotional health is at risk. Such emotion has the potential to cause stroke or ischemic conditions, etc. You need to know for your own health, for your own piece of mind.
If you are able to pay a lawyer say $50 to $100, ask him if he can somehow require the hospital not to mention to the mother about the phone call because of her condition.
Have a Drivers License or Passport ready for the lawyer and some other proof that you are related. Also it would be great if you had any proof of the mother’s condition or incompetence.
I will pray that the ‘flow of information’ in the chain of your family is an overreaction, that the hospital made the right decision to have the child come back on Monday. This is the best case.
If you find out that the child is indeed at risk, the call from the lawyer should shake up the hospital to get the mother back to the ER or get her a referral to another hospital. It the mother cannot drive, there are alternatives but I leave it to you to figure that out.
In the future, whatever the outcome of this incident, you should all consider a Christian family counselor to help improve the lines of communication and to help ‘structure’ the responsibilities of each family member.
God Bless.
The only one able to do that would be my sister. I have tried to reach her but she is probably resting. Our last conversation she was out of it. My DIL is with her. We do have one other option which is the child’s father. He was there when the situation occurred. If needed, my sister can call him and have him do what is needed. The mother was in an abusive relationship with him. He gets visitation every other weekend. He might have lost his rights. Not sure. I will mention everything mentioned on this board to my sister and send her a link of necessary.