{"id":67948,"date":"2025-03-13T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=67948"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:35:21","slug":"new-born-baby-suffers-severe-burns-due-to-incubator-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/new-born-baby-suffers-severe-burns-due-to-incubator-malfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"New born baby suffers severe burns due to incubator malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: In a tragic incident at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/nurses-held-responsible-for-patient-deaths-at-mayo-hospital\/\">Gangaram Hospital<\/a> in Lahore, an infant girl sustained severe burns apparently due to the medical staff&#8217;s negligence.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was kept in an incubator, which malfunctioned, heating beyond a controllable limit and resulting in severe burns to the body of the infant.<\/p>\n<p>According to the father of the infant, Rafaqat Ali, the hospital staff not only were irresponsible and uncooperative but also were rude and threw him out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/life-style\/fast-bowler-haris-rauf-welcomes-baby-boy\/\">nursery<\/a> when he questioned them about this act.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reminds one of a similar case in 2023, when an infant died of burns due to overheating in an incubator in Lahore&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital, which a committee later found to have been caused by severe negligence by doctors, nurses, and medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>The then Caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab, Mohsin Naqvi, took notice of the issue, visited the hospital, and formed a four-member investigation committee to investigate the causes of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Rafaqat Ali is now seeking justice from Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, who should investigate the incident for action against the hospital staff involved in the negligence.<\/p>\n<p>This unfortunate incident reiterates the dire need for accountability and patient care to be reinforced in hospitals for the prevention of any unforgivable incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: In a tragic incident at Gangaram Hospital in Lahore, an infant girl sustained severe burns apparently due to the medical staff&#8217;s negligence. The baby was kept in an incubator, which malfunctioned, heating beyond a controllable limit and resulting in severe burns to the body of the infant. According to the father of the infant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":67949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27134,27135],"class_list":["post-67948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-baby-suffers-burns-in-incubator","tag-gangaram-hospital-lahore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67950,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67948\/revisions\/67950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}