Medical students almost sliced a newborn baby boy's penis off as they cut the umbilical cord, it is claimed.
Doctors at a hospital in Mexico have been accused of attempting to hide the boy's injury.
His father grew suspicious that something had happened after being denied access to his son for more than two hours after the birth.
The incident happened after his partner Zulem Contreras gave birth at a hospital in the City of Saltillo in the state of Coahuila, north-eastern Mexico
Doctors told her husband Diego Rangel Izaguirre that the boy had suffered 'a minor accident'.
But he discovered that medical students had accidentally cut a part of his son's penis after mistakenly thinking it was the umbilical cord.
The organ was sewn back together by a surgeon - but the couple maintain their son's penis ultimately ended up with three separate cuts, some of them 2cm deep.
Diego Rangel Izaguirre, said: 'When my child was born and they cut his umbilical cord, they injured his penis.
'And unfortunately when the surgeon started sewing it, he made other two new injuries, almost two centimetres deep'
The baby's mother, Zulem Contreras, said: 'This shouldn't have happened, they should have assigned a gynaecologist to take care of him, not students'.
The couple have made an official complaint but hospital officials claim the newborn is healthy and that the operation was both minor and the baby's parents gave their consent.
A hospital spokesman said: "During the cut of the umbilical cord the skin of the prepuce (the technical term for foreskin) was accidentally injured and repaired through the usual circumcision process that was consented by the parents."
The hospital has also launched an internal investigation.
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