Panel finds Max hospital guilty in wrongly declaring baby dead case

December 05, 2017 22:20

A panel formed by the Delhi government to look into the case of a premature baby wrongly declared dead has found the hospital guilty of not following prescribed medical norms in dealing with newborn infants.

The three-member panel submitted its preliminary report to Delhi's Heath minister Satyender Jain after scrutinising hospital records and meeting staff members concerned, a Delhi government source said.

"The panel in its report found the hospital guilty of not having followed prescribed medical norms in dealing with newborn infants," a source said.

According to the report, no ECG tracings were done to check if the child was alive. The body was handed over without written instructions.

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