Guwahati, Oct 5: A newborn baby, who was declared dead by the doctors at a private hospital, found alive before the cremation on Wednesday morning.

The unusual incident was reported in Assam’s Silchar district.

Soon after the incident, a group of people from Silchar’s Malinibil area gathered in front of the hospital and staged a protest against hospital authority.

Talking to reporters, Ratan Das, father of the newborn baby said, “I took my six months-pregnant wife to a private hospital in Silchar on Tuesday evening where the doctors said there are complications in the pregnancy and they can save mother or the baby,”.

“We allowed the them to perform the delivery and they said that my wife has given birth to a stillborn child. On Wednesday morning we received the dead body of the baby,” he said.

Das said, “We have received the dead baby in a packet. After reaching the Silchar crematorium and when we opened the packet before the last rites, the child cried. We rushed back to the hospital with him and now he is under treatment,”.

Meanwhile, the family members have lodged a FIR against the hospital and a doctor.

Local resident said that the doctors should examine the baby properly before declaring him deed.

“They kept the newborn inside a packet like a garbage for hours without even properly examining if he was alive,” he said.

On the other hand, the hospital authorities said that they kept the baby under observation for eight hours before declaring it dead.

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