Mohammed Mahir, an 18-month-old premature child from Pudukottai, who was undergoing treatment for bleeding in the brain, died on Sunday morning at the Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Egmore.
A statement from the hospital said he had died of complications “in the form of bleeding in the brain which resulted in increase in size of the head due to accumulation of fluid in the brain requiring drainage.”
When the baby was five months old, a tube was inserted but the child lagged in development “involving all domains with poor weight gain and was nutritionally severely compromised”.
