Devastated mother wakes from a coma to find her baby boy is dead after she was given TEN TIMES too much morphine just before she was due to give birth
A mother who spent five years trying for a baby woke up from a coma to find out her son died because the hospital gave her 10 times too much morphine.
Mansurin 'Sarah' Hassan, from Bunbury, south of Perth, didn't take so much as a single Panadol during her first pregnancy as she feared it could impact her unborn son Zyeed.
But when the 28-year-old started having contractions on December 9, a midwife at St John of God Hospital in Bunbury offered her a dose of morphine at 11pm to ease the pain.
Her husband Touhidul 'Sunny' Alam was relieved to see his tired wife fall asleep within minutes,
Pictured: Mansurin 'Sarah' Hassan on life support while her husband Touhidul 'Sunny' Alam stands with their dead son, Zyeed
What he didn't realise was she was in a coma and their child was dying from a lack of oxygen after being given 100mg of the powerful painkiller instead of 10mg.
'I was sleeping while my baby was dying, and she was fighting for her life,' Mr Alam told 7 News.
When Ms Hassan was still asleep by the time a nurse visited the expectant mother the next morning, she couldn't find a pulse and rang the emergency bell.
Doctors performed a C-section on the spot to pull the now-dead infant from his mother,' The West Australian reported.
They handed the new father his lifeless child, and told him that his wife was on life support in intensive care because her heart and lungs were not functioning properly.
'His body was still warm, so I was in disbelief if he was alive or dead,' he said.
Ms Hassan and Mr Alum tried to have Zyeed for five years. Ms Hassan didn't take any painkillers throughout her pregnancy
Mr Alam faced the possibility of caring for a wife with brain damage, and then Ms Hassan was flown to Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth after a heart attack.
She remained unconscious for four days and woke up asking for her baby, but immediately knew her husband was hiding something.
Eventually, Ms Hassan heard the words 'the baby is gone' over the phone from her mother, who lives in Bangladesh.
'She couldn't tell me the lie,' Ms Hassan cried. 'It broke my whole life.'
Riddled with grief, the mother has been asking herself question why she agreed to take the morphine that night.
'Because of that, I lost my child,' she said.
Pictured: Ms Hassan, 28, crying as she talks about her son who tragically died in a hospital blunder
The couple said their dreams of becoming a family were destroyed 'within moments' by the blunder.
St John of God Bunbury launched a full investigation into the incident, describing the situation as 'a tragic occurrence'.
'The investigation and review are still ongoing but based on the available information at this time it appears that the incident was caused by human error,' the hospital told the network.
'Notwithstanding this, we have put in place a range of actions in response to this issue.
'This includes additional training, review of policies, review of handover processes and protocols, and review of our medication inventory management.'
The midwife who administered the morphine was stood down and another staff member resigned of her own accord.