Mexican Miracle Baby, Who Was Found Alive In Hospital Morgue, Dies

A newborn baby, who was miraculously found alive inside a Mexican morgue over a month ago, has died. The baby spent five weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit after it showed signs of life in the morgue freezer.

According to a report that appeared in New York Post, Lazarito Albino was declared dead by doctors shortly after he was born on Oct. 21 at General Hospital La Margarita in Puebla, Mexico.

His father signed his death certificate and the baby was kept in the morgue freezer for over six hours. However, the funeral home employee, who came to retrieve his body, noticed it was moving and crying. He alerted the parents and doctors.

A video had then circulated showing the baby wrapped in a blue sheet in his father's arms. The footage, which went viral, showed the father watching over the crying tot and urging him to stay strong.

The baby was laid to rest on Saturday in Tlatlauquitepec, said a report that appeared in Mexico News Daily.

Parents of the deceased baby, Santiago Albino and his wife Elisa, have approached the National Human Rights Commission against the La Margarita Hospital where Lazarito was born, citing medical negligence.

"We’re going to get to the bottom of what actually happened with regard to Lazarito’s birth,” the parents said in a statement.

He blamed the doctors for the newborn's death. "I hold the doctors that attended to my wife directly responsible. They left Elisa alone for 15–20 minutes and they walked by her looking at their cell phones without attending to her even when they could hear my wife screaming with childbirth pains,” said Albino.

Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa has also requested that federal and state prosecutors investigate the case.

However, the hospital authorities have clarified that the 23-week-old newborn was declared dead after assessing him according to established medical protocols for extremely premature newborns. He had shown no vital signs, they said.

Once he was discovered alive, Lazarito was quickly transferred back to the neonatal intensive care unit at La Margarita Hospital, where doctors said from the beginning that they could not guarantee his survival.