A Paraguayan ****** mourning the death of his premature baby was shocked to learn his *** was still alive when he heard ****** coming from the temporary box holding the ******'s supposed remains.
"I opened it to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing," Jose Alvarenga, 25, recounted. "I began to cry."
The ******, born nearly three months early on Thursday and weighing just over a pound, was rushed back to the same hospital, Central del Instituto de Previsión Social, where he had been born hours before.
Staff there had reportedly spent an hour trying to revive him after birth but declared him dead after being unable to detect any vital signs.
The ****** says he was at the ****** home in Fernando de la Mora for the baby's **** when he reportedly heard ****** from the box.
The ******, Isabel Rossana Cáceres, 24, was still in hospital recovering from the birth. The ****** is in stable condition in the intensive care unit.
Hospital officials said they plan to investigate the incident.
"This is a very unusual case," the head of pediatric care at the hospital, Ernesto Weber, told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
