Baby Dies After Father Went To Search For Petrol To Take Her To Hospital

The tragedy that people continue to experience in the midst of the Sri Lankan fuel crisis is unbelievable.

Can you imagine the shame a parent would feel for failing to arrange for a litre of petrol that would have allowed him to save his daughter's life by getting her to the hospital in time?

The parents in Haldamulla, around 190 kilometres from Colombo, wanted to rush their newborn to the hospital. She had developed jaundice and was refusing to be nursed.

With the prolonged gasoline crisis, the baby's father spent hours looking for petrol.

Finally, when the infant arrived at a hospital in Haldamulla, physicians had to transfer her to the Diyatalawa Hospital's Emergency Treatment Unit.

The baby's health deteriorated as a result of the delay in admitting her, and she died.

"The postmortem was difficult to do because the baby's organs were fully developed. The parents' gloomy memories of being unable to save their child due to a lack of a litre of gasoline would haunt them for the rest of their lives "In a social media post, Pathirana accused government leaders of neglecting to help people in the face of the worst-ever economic crisis.

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