Click to play videoNew Delhi: To an ailing infant, an incubator is a cocoon of safety. But it proved to be fatal to a four-month-old in Allahabad.
Dibyansu's father Pankaj Tripathi had brought him to a private hospital in Allahabad after the child was stricken by diarrhoea. Doctors said he was struggling, and put him in an incubator, but a few hours later, a shocked Pankaj was handed the child's body, which was allegedly burned.
“The doctor said he would give me a report by noon, put him in a heating device. But half his body was burned. That's how he died,” Pankaj Tripathi said.
Tragically, this isn't the first time that the incubator turned out to be an infant's grave.
In March last year, a five-day-old child died in an incubator in the Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital in New Delhi.
In November 2008, a newborn, barely an hour old, suffered 80 per cent burns when his incubator caught fire in the Sushila Jaswant Rai Hospital in Meerut.
In December the same year, a three-day old baby was killed after several incubators in a local hospital in Ahmedabad caught fire.
In all these cases, a short circuit is suspected to have caused the fire. Assurances of the police are little comfort to the parents, who this time squarely blame the doctors' negligence.
“We are waiting for the post-mortem report, we will investigate the matter,” Yagyadutt Shukla in Allahabad said.
Convictions have been few and very far in between in such cases.
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter and Google+)
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.