Hospital probes infant death after NICU lunch party

Ang Thong Hospital director Dr Parichart Tirawat (in white uniform) leads senior staff in issuing a statement on Friday after the death of a five-day-old infant, expressing condolences to the family and announcing an investigation into a lunch gathering held near the neonatal intensive care unit. (TV screenshot)

ANG THONG - Ang Thong Hospital has expressed condolences to the family of a five-day-old infant who died in its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and acknowledged that hospital staff had held a lunch gathering in an area adjacent to the ward, separated from patients only by a plastic curtain.

Dr Parichart Tirawat, the director of the public hospital, said on Friday that the hospital had received the family’s complaint and acknowledged concerns surrounding the baby’s death, as well as questions about an activity that took place near the NICU before the incident.