Toddler with ear, backbone condition and lung infection dies

TANAH MERAH: A 16-month-old baby boy, who had been born with hearing and backbone disabilities, and had been suffering from lung infection, died at 8.24am yesterday.  Muhammad Ikhsan Abdul Hadi died while receiving treatment at the emergency unit at the Tanah Merah Hospital.  The toddler’s mother, Siti Hafsah Che Mah, 41, said that the youngest of her three schildren had previously spent more than a month in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital, Kota Baru since Jan 21 due to his illness.  Overall, the toddler had been in and out of the hospital and ICU for three months as his condition was not stable. Doctors only allowed the toddler to be taken home on March 23. The toddler relied fully on certain breathing apparatus.  “Yesterday morning, I brought my son to the hospital. The oxygen supply in his body was depleting. But after 20 minutes of being treated, doctors confirmed that my son had died.  “It was hard to accept, but my family took it as 'qada’ ...

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