‘DEAD’ NEWBORN WAKES UP AFTER 7-HRS AT RFM

MANZINI - Was it a miracle or negligence of medical staff at its worst? This question comes after a seven-month-old premature baby girl was declared dead by medical staff at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial (RFM) Hospital, only for the infant to be heard crying over seven hours later, while wrapped in plastic bags, ready for burial. 

The baby had been declared dead while she was in her mother’s womb, through a scan. The incident, which left the mother’s family with a number of unanswered questions, happened early this week.
The mother of the newborn baby went to the hospital on Monday in a state of confusion, after she suffered from premature labour pains as she was seven months pregnant.

Without hesitating, the expectant mother, who was bleeding by then, rushed to the hospital and eventually arrived at around 8pm.
After being attended to by the medical staff stationed in the labour ward, she was later admitted to the emergency ward until the following morning (Tuesday).

Thereafter, she was taken for a scan to check how the unborn baby was doing in her womb.
According to the message which was conveyed by the medical staff members to the mother, who was still in pain, the baby had died.
The first relatives to arrive at the hospital after she had told them about the sad news, found her admitted to the emergency ward and she had an intravenous (IV) fluid (drip) in her arm.

As the woman was groaning in pain on the hospital bed, she was given a second and a third intravenous fluid (drip) to induce labour pains so that the foetus would come out.

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