Google – AFP, 21 November 2013
Illustration:
A Chinese baby boy who had been declared dead is saved from
being cremated
alive when he started crying at a funeral parlour, media reports
(AFP/File,
Philippe Huguen)
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Beijing — A
Chinese baby boy who had been declared dead was saved from being cremated alive
when he started crying at a funeral parlour, media reported Thursday.
The parents
of the critically-ill boy, who was less than one month old, had agreed to end
his medical treatment at Anhui Provincial Children's Hospital in eastern China,
hospital sources told Xinhua state news agency.
A death certificate
was issued before the baby was sent to an undertakers in Hefei, the provincial
capital -- only for staff there to be alerted by crying on Wednesday.
It was
unclear how long he had been at the funeral parlour, or when his cremation had
been due.
The baby
was immediately sent back to the hospital, several news outlets including the
Beijing News reported on Thursday.
"Because
the baby still had life signs, we continued to give him transfusion to maintain
his life for humanitarian reasons," a hospital staff member told Xinhua.
The baby
was born with a "congenital respiratory system malformation", the
agency added.
He was
receiving treatment at the hospital late Wednesday, reports said.
A doctor
had been suspended, a nursing worker laid off and an investigation launched
into the incident, Xinhua cited the hospital as saying.
Users of
China's weibo microblogging services were outraged, blaming both the boy's
parents and the doctors involved.
"Please
sentence the parents to five years in jail for abandonment," said one
poster on Thursday.
Another
wrote: "Doctors with white coats are really irresponsible, simply treating
patients' lives with utter disregard."
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