Infant's death: NHRC issues notices to DM, medical college

Taking suo motu cognizance of a newborn's death due to burn injuries allegedly as a result of overheating in an incubator, the NHRC today issued notices to the district magistrate of Meerut and the principal of the medical college, where the incident took place.
The commission observed that the death raised the serious issue of violation of right to health and demanded reports from the DM and Dr Pradeep Bharti, principal of Lala Lajpat Rai Medical College in Meerut within a month.
The baby was allegedly burnt to death due to an overheated incubator where he was kept. The newborn's father Vaseem, a resident of Muzaffarnagar, said his wife Ishrat delivered the baby on December 25, but was transferred to the medical college on December 27 since he was born premature.

Vaseem further said that the baby was kept under observation as it was underweight and was kept in a radiant warmer. On Monday morning, some technical error increased the temperature of the warmer, which burnt the baby's neck.
On raising an alarm, the warmer was switched off, but by then the baby had sustained 70 per cent burns and died on Monday evening.