A newborn in Argentina was found very much alive in a morgue by her mother 12
hours after hospital staff had declared the baby dead.The mother, Analia
Bouguet, tells TeleNoticias TV that the hospital still has issued her only a
death certificate for the infant rather than a birth certificate. Bouguet said
she is planning to pursue a medical malpractice suit.The report said that the baby was Bouguet's fifth
and was born prematurely.Two hours after being issue a death certificate,
Bouguet and her husband visited the morgue because they wanted to see their
child one more time."The baby was there and they put the little casket on
a stretcher. We looked for a bar to pry it open," the baby's father,
Fabian Veron, said in a press conference. "My wife looked and uncovered it
slowly. She saw the little hand and then uncovered the face. That's when it let
the first little cry out.""That night, we went to the morgue. We
wanted to take a photo of our daughter," Bouguet told Argentina's Clarin
newspaper. "But when a worker opened the drawer, we heard a cry and she
was alive."The newborn has been named Luz Milagros, or "Miracle
Light." She is still listed as being in critical condition but is said to
be improving. The deputy provincial health minister announced that five medical
professionals involved in the case have been suspended, pending further
investigation."At the moment we have no explanation," hospital
director Jose Luis Meirino told the paper. "The baby was attended to by
obstetricians, gynecologists and a neonatologist. They all reached the same
conclusion, that this girl was stillborn."