Matara Chief Magistrate Mr. Aruna Buddhadasa today ordered a DNA test to confirm the identity of the baby who died at the Matara New District General Hospital.Sri Lanka Latest News
It is said that when the parents requested a DNA test regarding their child, the director of the hospital opposed it.
Matara Chief Magistrate Mr Aruna Buddhadasa came to the hospital and gave this order after conducting the magisterial examination of the dead body of the baby which the hospital authorities allegedly showed to the parents.
The magistrate has further ordered that an autopsy be conducted on the body.
24-year-old Kavindya Madushani, a resident of Matara Weligama, was admitted to Matara New District General Hospital on the 22nd to give birth to her first child.
Madushani gave birth to the baby when she was admitted to the hospital, but the hospital authorities informed her that the baby was dead.
But the baby’s parents have doubts about it.
This is because the hospital authorities did not show the dead body of their baby to the parents and the contradictory statements made by the authorities about this.
We asked an Obstetrician and Gynecologist what is the normal procedure followed by a hospital in case of infant death.
There, he said that a hospital would ask for the consent of the parents regarding how to proceed with the dead body.
In such a background, did the hospital authorities conceal information about the child from these parents?
