In a shocking incident of hospital negligence in Delhi, the body of a newborn girl was found dumped in a bio-medical waste disposal truck at the privately-owned Mata Chanan Devi Hospital in Janakpuri, on Monday.

The infant had died of complications at 1.30am on Monday. The family had paid the hospital Rs. 1,500 to keep her body in the mortuary overnight, but it was missing when the family came back for the body around 10am.

The child, which was born in Khanna nursing home with an enlarged brain, was taken to Mata Chanan Devi Memorial Hospital in west Delhi’s Janakpuri, where a blood test and x-ray was conducted. Doctors said blood transfusion would be given to the infant.

Late after midnight, the infant’s father got a call from the hospital doctor saying that the infant passed away at 1:30 am. The doctor asked the parent to take possession of the body.

Since it was past midnight, the parents offered and paid Rs 1,500 as mortuary charges, though as per rules, no mortuary charges can be collected till six hours after death.

On Monday morning, when the relatives went to collect the body at the mortuary,  they found the infant’s body kept in the hospital waste truck along with other hospital wastes.