Daijiworld Media Network - Raichur (SP)

Raichur, Jan 31: In a strange incident which happened in Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences here on Wednesday January 30, the staff of the hospital delivered lifeless body of a male child to the parents of a female child that had been admitted there for treatment.

The parents had admitted their baby girl born a few days back into the hospital for treatment because of its low weight. The hospital staff told them that their baby had died, and handed over the body of a male child on Wednesday. The parents did notice this goof-up and went back to their village. When they prepared for the funeral, they noticed that they were given a wrong baby.

The parents, aggrieved by this, went back to the hospital, gave the body back, and took the officials to task. Later, they got their baby girl discharged from this hospital and admitted it into another hospital.

Padma Mohan from Mirzapur in the taluk,who got admitted into the above hospital on Friday last for delivery, had delivered a baby girl. The baby was being treated in the hospital for low weight. On Wednesday morning the hospital staff delivered the body of a male baby to her, claiming that her baby had died.

During the questioning by hospital officials, the junior staff said that the confusion arose because of the fact that the names of the two mothers were the same. Superintendent of the hospital, Dr Ramesh, said that babies of two ladies named Padma were being cared for at the neonatal care section of the hospital and the problem was created because of the fact that the staff handed over the body to wrong parents without matching names with other records about the children. He said that the erring staff would be acted against strictly.