/ 4 June 2001

NEWBORN DIES AFTER BEING BITTEN BY ANIMAL

A DAYS-old baby boy has died in hospital after being viciously bitten by an unidentified animal that managed to get into the incubator ward where he was being kept following a premature birth, a newspaper reported Saturday. Al-Wafd said the incident took place on Friday at a public hospital in Itai al-Barud, in northern Egypt. The baby had been born at a hospital in a nearby village that did not have incubator facilities. The animal disappeared after the incident. The baby’s father has filed a complaint of negligence against a number of officials and doctors at the hospital, the newspaper said. – AFP