She died twice since her birth three days ago.
First she was declared dead by a doctor in a Faridpur hospital moments after she was born, four months prematurely, on Thursday.
But the baby girl cried out when family members were about to bury her. She was then flown to Dhaka for treatment at Square Hospitals, where she died around 11:45pm yesterday.
Aftab Yusuf Raj, a consultant at the Neonatal Incentive Care Unit (NICU) of the hospital, confirmed her death to The Daily Star.
The 23-week-old baby, who was named Galiba Hayat, weighed only 450 grams and had heart problems and infections, he said, adding that doctors tried their best to save her.
Earlier in the day, the physician said it was a miracle that the baby, bleeding from different parts of her body, was still alive.
The baby was under his care at the Square Hospital, where she was admitted around 7:30pm on Saturday, after being flown by a helicopter chartered with funds received from an anonymous donor in Hungary.
During the day, the girl’s father Nazmul Huda Mithu said: “Allah has brought my daughter back from the jaws of death. Insha Allah, she will survive … I wish to take her home well.”
He also blamed Rejia Alom, the doctor in Faridpur hospital who declared the baby dead, for his daughter’s infections.
“Why wasn’t she kept under observation?” Nazmul said.
After the incident, Rejia told The Daily Star that the kid was born premature and that she did not find its pulse and heartbeat during examination. That’s why she declared her dead.
The kid was then kept in a carton on the hospital floor, her grandfather Abul Kalam Mia had earlier alleged.
Kalam then took the kid to Faridpur Municipality Graveyard for burial around 3:00am on Thursday. As it was still dark, an employee asked him to wait till morning. Kalam obliged, keeping the carton beside a concrete grave.
In the morning, while reciting from the Quran the imam asked Kalam to open the carton. It was then that the baby cried out.
The management of Jahid Memorial Child Hospital where the baby was born formed a committee to investigate the incident.
