Delhi government cancels licence of Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh for wrongly declaring baby dead
The hospital’s administration was a habitual offender and the negligence on its part was unacceptable, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said.
The government of Delhi on Friday announced that it had cancelled the licence of Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh after an infant who declared dead by the hospital was found alive. The negligence on the part of the hospital was unacceptable, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said. He added that the hospital was a habitual offender.
We have cancelled the license of #MaxHospital Shalimar Bagh, the negligence in the newborn death case was unacceptable: Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain pic.twitter.com/vbUlT6PGB2
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The hospital, a government panel said on Tuesday, did not conduct an electrocardiography test to check whether the baby was alive. The baby died a day later at a private nursing home.
The baby and his twin sister were born at the hospital on November 30. But the hospital said that both premature twins were stillborn. When the parents were on their way to a crematorium to perform their last rites, they found that the boy was still alive, and rushed him to another hospital. They had also alleged that the hospital handed the babies to them in a plastic bag.
