IPOH: A cleaner made a shocking discovery when she found a dead newborn baby in a trash bin at the Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun today.
Nor Hanizam Idris, 46, was clearing the bins near the hospital canteen when the newborn body fell out from one of the bins about 11am.
"I was shocked to see the body and quickly called my colleagues to help identify it.
"It was loosely wrapped and was already infested with maggots," she said when met at the hospital today.
Hanizam said she later lodged a report at the nearest police station.