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29 March 2024

Hospital gives dad another body of dead baby

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A Saudi man whose new born son died at hospital carried the wrapped baby to a mosque for prayers and had him washed before he headed for the nearby cemetery and buried him. On the next day, he was told by the hospital he got the wrong body.

The grieved man has just buried his son in the western Saudi town of Taif and returned home to receive mourners before he went to bed.

“I received a call on the next morning from the hospital telling me to come…when I went there, I was told that I was given the wrong body,” he told Sabq newspaper.

It said the man was later handed the right body but added that the father of the buried boy came to the hospital at the same time and demanded his body.

The paper did not make clear if the buried baby was exhumed and delivered to the right father. But it added both men said they would complain to health authorities.