ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: “Paradise lies at the feet of the mother.”
In July, the Ankara facility became the scene of any parent’s hell: A total of 27 newborns died here within two weeks, most of them from infection.
Now Turkey is reeling from a similar tragedy at another hospital, this time in the western city of Izmir, where 13 premature babies died last weekend within 24 hours, apparently from tainted IV treatment.
