'Dead' baby cried before cremation
By Wang Xiang |
May 15, 2010, Saturday
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AN aborted baby declared dead by doctors in south China's Guangdong Province suddenly cried before he was due to be cremated, but died later after doctors refused to treat him.
A mortuary worker at Nanhai Funeral Home in Foshan City said he got a fright when he heard the baby cry. He opened the carton and found the baby moving, but apparently choking on some cotton wool in his mouth, the locally based Information Times reported.
After the worker cleared his mouth, the baby yawned and breathed normally. He was rushed back to Guanyao Hospital which had delivered the baby earlier that day.
But doctors in the hospital are said to have ignored him, leaving him in the lobby, and confirmed after an hour that the baby was dead.
A funeral home official said the hospital sent many aborted fetuses or still-born babies for cremation. The baby that had cried out was a seven-month fetus. He said he had videos to prove the baby was alive at the funeral home.
Liu Sanhong, an official with the hospital, said its staff checked the baby for an hour to make sure that he was dead. Liu did not say whether the doctors tried to save the baby or not. But he insisted that the baby was dead hours after it was born on Thursday.
The baby was sent back to the funeral home where workers put the body in a refrigerator for further investigation. The report said that all workers at the funeral home had been ordered not to talk about the incident.
Previous incidents involving the handling of still-born or aborted fetuses have sparked anger in China.
On March 31, 21 fetuses and babies' bodies were found dumped in a river in east China's Jining City.
Eight of the 21 bodies had tags with clinic code numbers attached to their feet. The Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University said they were "medical waste."
Two hospital workers have been detained, and the director and deputy director of the hospital's logistics department were sacked. A vice president of the hospital was suspended.
"The incident exposes a serious loophole in the hospital's management and indicates a lack of ethics," Gong Zhenhua, a Jining government spokesman said.
A mortuary worker at Nanhai Funeral Home in Foshan City said he got a fright when he heard the baby cry. He opened the carton and found the baby moving, but apparently choking on some cotton wool in his mouth, the locally based Information Times reported.
After the worker cleared his mouth, the baby yawned and breathed normally. He was rushed back to Guanyao Hospital which had delivered the baby earlier that day.
But doctors in the hospital are said to have ignored him, leaving him in the lobby, and confirmed after an hour that the baby was dead.
A funeral home official said the hospital sent many aborted fetuses or still-born babies for cremation. The baby that had cried out was a seven-month fetus. He said he had videos to prove the baby was alive at the funeral home.
Liu Sanhong, an official with the hospital, said its staff checked the baby for an hour to make sure that he was dead. Liu did not say whether the doctors tried to save the baby or not. But he insisted that the baby was dead hours after it was born on Thursday.
The baby was sent back to the funeral home where workers put the body in a refrigerator for further investigation. The report said that all workers at the funeral home had been ordered not to talk about the incident.
Previous incidents involving the handling of still-born or aborted fetuses have sparked anger in China.
On March 31, 21 fetuses and babies' bodies were found dumped in a river in east China's Jining City.
Eight of the 21 bodies had tags with clinic code numbers attached to their feet. The Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University said they were "medical waste."
Two hospital workers have been detained, and the director and deputy director of the hospital's logistics department were sacked. A vice president of the hospital was suspended.
"The incident exposes a serious loophole in the hospital's management and indicates a lack of ethics," Gong Zhenhua, a Jining government spokesman said.
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