A baby due for cramation was found alive in china

A month-old baby boy in Hefei,An hui province,who wassent by a hospital to a funeral home for cremation,was found to be alive on Wednesday. The child has been returned to An hui Provincial Children's Hospital,where health care workers were trying tos ave him on Thursday.Theinfant,who has a congenital abnormality and otherlife-threatening illnesses
, had been given up by his parents at the hospital. On Monday, he was pronounced dead. Two days later,
a nursing assistant sent the baby, along with the bodiesof two other children, to the funeral home. Liu Tiesheng, the hospital'svice-president, said on Thursday that the baby is nowin an intensive careunit and his condition remains critical. Liu said the hospital has an expertte am of medical workers trying to save the boy but"he is not in a good condition". The doctor who pronounced the boy dead has been suspended and the nursing assistant dismissed for "failing to ask the doctor to double-check before sending him to the funeral parlor", said the hospital's publicity official, who gave her name as Wang. The provincial health department labeled the incidenta "serious diagnostic error" on Thursday. It blamed the mistake on the doctor and the" chaotic management"ofthe hospital's new born ward. The authority also demanded the hospital conduct are view of practices and performance. The baby was born premature and taken to the thospital on Oct28.On Nov12, the parents gavehim up and put him at the disposal of the hospital. The hospital continued to care for the child,buton Monday, the baby's primary doctor, identified as Zha, issued a death certificate. The nursing assistant, Sheng,was too busy to arrange the delivery of the boy to the funeral home immediately. On Tuesday, the child was place dina cardboardbox and left alone in a separate ward. The following day,Sheng arranged the boy'stransfer to the funeral home without carefully checking his condition. Hefei Funeral Parlor official WangHong said on Thursday that the hospital had provided complete documentation, including the death certificate and a letter from the boy'sparentsauthorizing his cremation. In the letter, the parents said they had given the baby upto the hospital and did not wish to receive his ashes aftert hecremation, the funeral home official said. In a routine examination of the body on Wednesday, funeral home workers discovered the boy was alive.He was rushed back to the hospital. The boy was born around Oct21, the hospital said on Thursday. A hospital worker who spokeon condition of anonymity, said when the parents were contacted on Wednesday they repeated that they had given up the baby and did not want to be involved. WangZhenghuainShanghai contributed to this story.