We ripped it open, found bits of plastic and the baby inside, breathing.” “After we travelled 3km, we felt a movement in one. “They handed us both bodies wrapped like a courier package from the back door,” the boy’s grandfather Kailash told NDTV. Indian TV showed images of yellow plastic bags in which the bodies were reportedly wrapped by the hospital and returned to the family. The girl was stillborn and the boy was in critical condition soon afterwards, doctors pronounced him dead. Two doctors have been sacked from Delhi’s upmarket Max hospital in Shalimar Bagh, where the boy and his twin sister were born prematurely at 22 weeks last week.
Police in Delhi have launched an investigation after a baby that had been pronounced dead by doctors was found to be moving in a body bag as his parents prepared to deliver funeral rites.
