Viral News: Baby declared dead by hospital staff and buried is found alive after being dug up

 Viral News: Baby declared dead by hospital staff and buried is found alive after being dug up 

A baby declared dead by hospital staff shortly after birth began to cry at her own funeral service.

 

Two members of staff at the Sub District Hospital in Banihal, India, were suspended after the newborn was found to be alive despite being pronounced stillborn just a few hours prior. 

 Viral News: Baby declared dead by hospital staff and buried is found alive after being dug up 

The baby girl was born to Shamemma Begum on Monday, May 23, but was declared dead by medical staff almost immediately.

 

Just two hours later, family members of the baby buried her in a nearby graveyard in the village of Hollan.

 

However, locals staged an impromptu protest about the burial site. They said the newborn should be buried at an ancestral burial site instead.