Hospital defends ‘Dead baby alive’ case

Friday, July 4, 2008 at 4:07 am

The baby boy which was declared dead but was found to be alive ten hours later was a case of “suspended animation” clinically described as a temporary interruption of vital functions resembling death, authorities of the nursing home where it occurred claimed today (July 3).

Disputing that the incident at Belle Vue Clinic on Monday (June 30) was a case of medical negligence, its CEO P Tandon said: “The baby was a unique case of suspended animation where the patient shows no sign of life when clinically examined, but can come back to life even after a span of ten hours. “The baby didn’t respond to medical treatment and so the nurses and the medical staff declared it dead but it came back to life. It cannot, in any way, be termed as medicalnegligence,” Tandon said.

Parag Pal of the government-run R G Kar Medical College, who is working on suspended animation, said that it not new in medical history with a lot of research having taken place. “But a person coming back to life after ten hours is rare,” Pal said.

Sangita Das, a resident of Belilious Road, Howrah, who delivered a baby boy on Sunday at the nursing home, was told that it was stillborn, but her family found it to be alive when the body was handed over.

(With inputs from PTI)

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Hospital defends ‘Dead baby alive’ case

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