Delhi: Newborn dies a week after Max hospital doctors wrongly declared him dead

Mangalore Today News Network

Delhi, Dec 06, 2017 : The newborn who was wrongly declared dead by a private hospital in Delhi passed away on Wednesday.

 

The boy, who was born prematurely in Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, died in a clinic in Pitampura, where he was being treated for a week after his parents found him alive while taking the “body” for final rites.

A Delhi government probe panel had on Tuesday found the Max hospital guilty of negligence in declaring the child, a twin, dead. His sister was stillborn.

In his complaint to police, baby’s father Ashish Kumar, had said the boy had contracted an infection after being wrapped in a plastic bag by the Max Hospital.


courtesy:HT