The baby's father Vaseem, a resident of Muzaffarnagar, said that his wife Ishrat gave birth to a baby on December 25 at a nearby hospital. Due to premature birth, the baby was underweight and transferred to Medical College here on December 27.
Here, doctors kept him in a radiant warmer. Yesterday, the radiant warmer's temperature rose up, due to which the baby's neck was burnt.
Later, a patient raised an alarm and the warmer was switched off, but by then the baby had sustained 70 per cent burns and died last evening.
Meanwhile, Medical College's in-charge Dr Amit Pathak has said that the incident happened due to a short circuit.
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