Newborn girl, who was found alive after bring her out of grave, dies in Srinagar hospital

JAMMU, MAY 25: A newborn girl, who was found alive after her grieving relatives were made to exhume her body from the grave by local villagers, finally died in a Kashmir hospital on Wednesday morning.

According to deceased’s father Basharat Sadiq Gujjar, she breathed her last around 6.30 am at G B Pant Hospital in Srinagar. When the girl was brought at the Srinagar hospital on Monday, the doctors had told him that her condition was not good, he said, adding that she later developed problem with her heart as well.

Sources said that she was only 6-7 month old and her condition was not good even at the time of her pre-mature birth at the gate of the government run sub district hospital at Banihal in Ramban district three days ago.

The newborn girl after being declared dead by hospital staff was buried in the graveyard of a neighbouring village on Monday. However, she later turned out to be alive after her grieving relatives had to exhume her body in view of objections by local villagers.

Two persons — a junior staff nurse and her helper — who declared the newborn dead without informing the gynaecologist have been suspended and a three member team led by Deputy CMO has also been set up to probe the matter.

Ramban Chief Medical Officer Dr Fareed Bhat said that Shameema was six-month pregnant and as she had a premature delivery, she was straightway taken to the labour room by a junior staff nurse and her helper. “However, instead of calling the gynaecologist, they declared the baby dead on their own. By the time the gynaecologist reached the labour room, the family had left,” the CMO said.