Services Hospital administration allegedly swapped a newborn baby with a dead newborn on Monday night. The family protested outside Services Hospital’s emergency ward and demanded the DNA test of the deceased baby. Sajjad Anwar, newborn’s father and a Samanabad resident, said that he brought his newborn daughter, Amna Sajjad, to Services Hospital for medical aid on April 30 because she was not breathing properly.
He said that the hospital’s staffers told him that Amna had died, and handed her body over to him. He said that his wife refused to accept that the deceased baby was her Amna though her shirt carried her nametag. He said that later he came to know that the hospital’s administration had also changed Amna’s date of admission to May 2 whereas he had admitted her on April 30, he said.
He claimed that on May 1, another girl named Amna was brought to the hospital and alleged that the nametags had been replaced. He said that as a result of their protest, Services Hospital Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Javed ordered an inquiry into the matter. He claimed that during the inquiry it was proved that the staffers changed the nametags and date of admission over which the inquiry committee requested them to settle the matter.
He said that he asked the inquiry committee to conduct a DNA test of the deceased to ensure the deceased child’s identity. He said that the inquiry committee threatened him with dire consequences and called the Shadman Police who shifted the deceased’s body to Mayo Hospital morgue. Sajjad alleged that the hospital’s staffers had not maintained the record well and a few of them were involved in changing nametags and kidnapping newborns.
The Services Hospital MS said that the inquiry committee, formed under the supervision of Professor Dr Raza Baloch, conducted a detailed inquiry and it has been proved that the deceased baby was the complainant’s daughter and nothing went wrong in the hospital. He refused to accept that the hospital staff was invovled in kidnapping newborn babies, saying there was a strict check on them.
