Baby dies at daycare centre - A couple was horrified to find out their baby had died just a few hours after dropping her off at a daycare centre

Tuesday September 21, 2010

Baby dies at daycare centre
By CHITRA S. NATHAN
newsdesk@thestar.com.my

SEREMBAN: Barely a fortnight after celebrating Hari Raya with their only child, a couple here was horrified to find out their baby had died just a few hours after dropping her off at a daycare centre.

Three-month-old Nor Azwa Safrina Hairul Anuar was pronounced dead at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital after she was found unconscious by the daycare centre operator in Taman Paroi Jaya yesterday.

It is learnt that the baby’s teacher parents – Norhida Md Noor, 26 and Hairul Anuar Abdul Aziz, 30 – sent their daughter to the daycare centre at 7am on their way to work.

Hairul’s mother Zadariah Ismail, 57, said she was shocked to receive a phone call from one of the employees at the daycare centre at 11.30am informing her that her granddaughter was unconscious.

“The employee said she had gone to pick up Nor Azwa from the cradle for her bath and found something amiss as the child did not respond.

“She immediately called us.

“When we got there, I was horrified to find my grandchild’s body had already turned cold,” she said tearfully.

Zadariah and her husband then took Nor Azwa to a nearby clinic where doctors tried to resuscitate her before rushing her to the TJH but their efforts were in vain.

Zadariah said her son and daughter-in-law were too distraught to speak to reporters.

“We are shocked over what had happened.

“My son and his wife had brought Nor Azwa to our house just last night.

“I had no idea it was going to be the last time I saw her alive,” she said, adding that the cause of the child’s death was still unknown and the family were awaiting results of the post-mortem.

Deputy OCPD Supt Mohd Yusoff Awang said investigations were underway.

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