The child was readmitted to the ICU. However, the child died on Sunday, police said.
The newborn, who was declared dead at a government hospital, was found breathing by his family as he was being prepared for burial on Saturday in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district.
Police said the boy was taken to hospital after being found alive, but died late Sunday.
Monalisa Khatun was admitted to Gatar Super Specialty Hospital in Paschim Medinipur district early on Saturday morning with labor pains, police sources said.
Around 2pm, I gave birth to a boy. The hospital claimed that the boy was born prematurely and told Khatun’s family that the child died around 5 pm.
Hospital authorities handed over the child’s body to the family and issued a death certificate around 9 p.m., police said. Saturday. He noticed that he was breathing. The official said that the child was readmitted at the nurshing home with intensive care but had died on Sunday morning.
Ali Ahmed Khan, the boy’s father, said, “How did he start breathing after doctors declared the child dead and issued the death certificate?”
My son would be alive by now if they hadn’t mistakenly declared him dead and treated him.
