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'Dead' baby found crying
A premature baby girl who had been declared dead began crying in the morgue of a hospital three hours later.
- Evening Standard
- Published: 00:00 August 5, 2007
London: A premature baby girl who had been declared dead began crying in the morgue of a hospital three hours later.
An employee at the hospital in Argentina heard her wailing and called doctors.
The baby, who was born three months premature and weighs barely 1.4 lbs, spent more than three hours inside a refrigerated room at the morgue, the hospital employee told reporters.
"It was a gift from heaven that the Lord gave me, a miracle," said the man, who did not identify himself.
Jorge, the baby's father, said his daughter "already had a death certificate, but then she turned out to be alive and now she is in an incubator trying to recover".
"Nobody gave us an explanation or apologised to us," the father told a local radio station. He added the baby had been named Brisa Milagros - Milagro means miracle in Spanish.
The director of the hospital in Monte Grande, 22 miles outside Buenos Aires, Mario Polzella, said: "The child did not have vital signs. All types of routine procedures were performed on her and she could not be revived. The hospital's intention is to explain the reasons for what happened."
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