Hospital blamed
A mother whose newborn baby was found alive in an Argentine morgue 12 hours after being declared dead has blamed hospital negligence for the near-fatal mistake.
Doctors told Analia Bouter that her baby was stillborn when she gave birth in Argentina's northern Chaco province on April 3.
But when she and her husband pried open the coffin inside the refrigerated morgue, they found the baby breathing.
"We knelt down and thanked God for this miracle," Bouter told reporters. "The doctor always treated the baby as if she were dead ... 15 minutes after my daughter was born, she was already placed in a closed coffin."
The couple named her Luz Milagros - her middle name meaning miracles in Spanish.
Officials say the infant, who was born three months premature, is in critical but stable condition.
Five hospital workers involved in the case have been suspended.
'Dead' baby found alive in morgue
Hospital blamed
A mother whose newborn baby was found alive in an Argentine morgue 12 hours after being declared dead has blamed hospital negligence for the near-fatal mistake.
Doctors told Analia Bouter that her baby was stillborn when she gave birth in Argentina's northern Chaco province on April 3.
But when she and her husband pried open the coffin inside the refrigerated morgue, they found the baby breathing.
"We knelt down and thanked God for this miracle," Bouter told reporters. "The doctor always treated the baby as if she were dead ... 15 minutes after my daughter was born, she was already placed in a closed coffin."
The couple named her Luz Milagros - her middle name meaning miracles in Spanish.
Officials say the infant, who was born three months premature, is in critical but stable condition.
Five hospital workers involved in the case have been suspended.
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