A newly born baby died allegedly due to overheating of a radiant warmer at a Medical College here.
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.
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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.
Medical College's Principal Dr Pradeep Bharti has set up a three-member Commission under the Chairmanship of the Chief Medical Officer Dr Subhash. He said that if there is any negligence, strict action will be taken against those responsible.
Meanwhile, Medical College's in-charge Dr Amit Pathak has said that the incident happened due to a short circuit.
