The newborn who started moving after doctors declared him dead, has died finally at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Acting deputy director of DMCH Dr Mushfiqur Rahman said the baby boy died around 11am on Sunday.
Earlier on Saturday, doctors issued a death certificate and told his relatives that the baby had died.
According to the DMCH admission registrar, the infant’s mother, Sultana Akther, 28, of Cunkutia in Keraniganj was admitted to the hospital around 10pm Friday with labour pains.
Two hours later, she gave birth to a three-month premature baby. The newborn required oxygen support.
The infant’s maternal grandmother, Hanufa Begum, said, soon after the birth, DMCH doctors suggested that the baby be admitted to the Children’s Hospital.
“But it was night, so we decided to keep the baby at DMCH with oxygen support and wait for morning so the boy’s father, a worker of a steel factory, could arrange money for treatment,” she said.
“At 9am, the baby was unresponsive so we contacted the doctors and they, without checking anything, issued a death certificate and told us the baby had died,” Hanufa said.
Preparations for the neonate’s funeral had been completed and the grave site was being dug when passers-by noticed the shrouded figure moving and halted the burial.
Later, the baby was admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the hospital.
The hospital authorities formed a probe committee to investigate the matter.
In December last year, a DMCH patient, reported to have been neglected by doctors because she appeared to be a vagabond, was declared dead but came back to life while being carted off to the Dhaka Medical College morgue.
