A young couple’s newborn son is dead and they believe the KHMH may have been negligent. On Saturday Judith Moody gave birth to a baby boy. She and her common-law husband Rudy Faber planned to name their newborn baby boy Alexander Russell Faber but they never got the chance because early this morning their baby boy died. The doctor says it was from a blood infection but the couple is sceptical. Keith Swift has more.

Keith Swift Reporting,
Judith Moody and Rudy Faber took home their newborn baby boy on Sunday.

Rudy Faber, Father of Dead Newborn
“This child was a healthy child and when they let this child out of the hospital he seemed healthy to me, he was breathing good and everything but after a couple, we took him home Sunday and we noticed that Tuesday he started to breathe hard.”

Judith Moody, Mother of Dead Newborn
“He stayed the blow hard, trying to catch his breath every minute. I took him to the doctor. When I reached at the emergency area, the first thing they sent me to do was an x-ray on his chest. When I finished with the x-ray, they read it and everything was fine. So they decided to put him on a nebulizer so he could catch his breath to see if he would be alright. No changes were made. He still was breathing hard and fighting for his breath.”

Rudy Faber,
“First they told me that it was bronchial pneumonia and then the next thing they said the child had diabetes, he had high sugar, and then the next thing they said was that the child had a heavy blood infection. But this is my thing: from they released the child from the hospital they couldn’t check all of these things. When we reached the emergency section, they took samples from this child, from this baby, when we reached up they took more blood samples. All these testing they did and they couldn’t see that this child had a blood infection all along and try to flush him out and do what they had to do to save his life.”

The newborn baby boy died this morning. The young couple who has previously lost a child says they want answers.

Rudy Faber,
“The doctors they said, after the child now, that is when they told us the child had a blood infection. All along all of this was going and nobody said nothing to us. They were treating it like the child had asthma or bronchial pneumonia and all they gave the child were antibiotics and drips and the nebulizer. That is basically what they give the child and from we reached I am explaining to them that this child needs urgent medical attention.

I just wish that we get a post mortem and we find out what wrong. If the child died from natural causes then we accept it but I would want to know if it was an overdose or anything.”

Rudy Faber told us that he has requested all of his son’s medical records and plans to get a second opinion on what was wrong with his son and what if anything the doctors at the KHMH did wrong. The KHMH’s Public Relations Officer Gary Ayuso told us this evening that he has received the complaint and it will be investigated from all angles. Three years ago the couple’s first child died at 25 weeks after the umbilical cord got tied around his neck.