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29 March 2024

Nurse places newborn in locker thinking infant is dead

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Colombo - A baby born on July 14 at a hospital was pronounced dead after being prematurely born.

The child’s body, which was then placed by a female nurse in a locker by the mother's bed, was discovered by the Chief Medical Officer of the hospital to be still alive.

The child is said to be in good health and is recuperating in the Neonatal Unit of the hospital.

Twenty-five year old Sangeetha Raja and 19-year-old Manimel Divya, residents of the lower area of Ingiriya, Raigamwatte, are the parents of the child.

The father of the child said, "We admitted Manimel who was experiencing labour pains to the hospital.

“The doctor then informed us that the foetus was premature and then a nurse, right in front of me, proceeded to place the baby in an aluminium tray and put it in my wife's locker by the bed along with her clothes and assorted things."

Raja went home. He was then informed on July 15 by his wife that the body had been taken to the Neonatal Unit where it was found that his child was in fact living.