AN eight-month-old baby died after her mother allegedly left her in a car at the parking lot of the Canselor Tunku Muhriz Hospital in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.

Cheras police chief Zam Halim Jamaluddin said the mother, who is a doctor at the hospital, was reported to have brought the baby in the car to be dropped off at a nursery on her way to work at 7.20am.

He said after placing her child in the rear seat, the woman, however, drove straight to work.

“She only realised that her daughter was still in the car later in the afternoon, when her husband called to ask why the baby was not sent to the nursery,” he said in a statement today.

Zam Halim said the child, the younger of two siblings, was pronounced dead at 5.53pm by a medical officer at the hospital.

Police will record a statement from the mother after funeral arrangements are completed.

The case is classified as sudden death but further investigation into child neglect will be carried out in accordance with section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001. – Bernama, October 6, 2023.