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Declared dead, newborn stirs to life after three hours

Staff Correspondent
In yet another incident of utter negligence, Dhaka Medical College Hospital doctors declared a newborn dead yesterday but the infant was found alive moments before its burial.
The baby boy was later readmitted to the hospital and kept on assisted ventilation as of 1:00am today.
On December 4 last year, the DMCH doctors declared a female patient dead. However, she stirred to life on the way to the morgue three hours later. The woman, about 45, whose identity could not be known, died a day later at the hospital.
The boy was naturally born premature on Friday night and stopped breathing around 8:45 in the morning. When doctors were called in, they declared the infant dead without even checking him properly, the family alleged.
Around three hours later at Azimpur Graveyard in the capital, the boy's uncle Mahmudul Karim was holding the baby wrapped in a towel while father Jahangir Alam was preparing to bathe his son.
Suddenly, Mahmudul felt his
newborn nephew moving.
When he unwrapped the towel, the baby moved his hands feebly and opened his mouth a little, said Jahangir, who lives in Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital.
"Your son is alive! Your son is alive!" the father quoted Mahmudul as shouting.
The boy was rushed to the DMCH.
Even then, the hospital authorities did not pay much attention until a journalist intervened, said Mohammad Russel, one of the students.
Talking to The Daily Star last night, Jahangir said doctors had informed him around 9:30pm that his son's condition deteriorated.
"I'm not sure whether he is still alive," Jahangir, who has a three-
year-old daughter as well, said around 12:30am.
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The boy weighed around 1.2kg and had respiratory complications, said Prof Ferdousi Islam, head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the DMCH.
He needed ICU support but the hospital authorities did not provide him such treatment, saying no incubator was available at that time, the family alleged.
The hospital said they recommended moving the infant to another hospital with available incubators.
But the family could not afford to do so.
Yesterday morning, when the boy apparently stopped breathing and was baby rushed to the doctors at the
hospital.
"They issued a death certificate hurriedly, without even properly checking him up," Mohammad Masud, another uncle of the boy, alleged.
Terming it a mistake, DMCH Director Brig Gen Mustafizui Rahman at a hurriedly-convened press briefing at his office said they would take stern actions against those responsible.
The director declined to name the certificate issuer despite repeated requests from journalists.
He said a four-member committee had been formed to probe the incident and report in five working days.
A doctor ofthe hospital said, "The boy was on an incubator which fell vacant following the death oi another child today [yesterday]."