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- Aborted Baby Cries Before Cremation
Created: 2010-5-14
Author:Wang Xiang
An aborted baby declared dead by doctors in south China's Guangdong Province
cried before he was due to be cremated, but died hours later as doctors refused
to treat him.
A mortuary worker at Nanhai Funeral Home in Foshan City said the baby cried and
scared him as he was about to throw the coffin into a furnace, Information
Times reported today.
He opened the box and found the seven-month fetus moving, but apparently choking
on some cotton wool in his mouth, the report said.
After the worker cleared his mouth, the baby yawned and breathed peacefully.
Workers rushed him back to Guanyao Hospital which delivered the baby as medical
waste earlier that day.
But doctors left him in the lobby, and confirmed after an hour that the baby
died.
The vice head of the funeral house said Guanyao Hospital sent many aborted
fetuses or still-born babies for cremation. This baby apparently survived an
abortion at seven months, and he had videos to prove the baby was still alive
before the cremation.
Hospital official Liu Sanhong said its staff checked the baby for an hour and
made sure it was dead. Liu did not say whether the doctors tried to save the
baby or not.
The body was later sent back to the funeral house. The report said all workers
were ordered not to talk about the incident.
On March 31, at least 21 fetuses and dead babies were found dumped in a river
in east China's Jining City.
Eight had tabs with clinic code numbers attached to their feet. The Affiliated
Hospital of Jining Medical University responsible for the corpses said they
were "medical waste."
Two hospital staffers have been detained while the director and deputy director
of the hospital's logistics department were sacked. A vice president of the
hospital was suspended.
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