GREATER NOIDA: “I took her in my arms and felt like I was holding my baby,” said Jyoti Singh, the wife of the SHO of Knowledge Park police station.Jyoti was holding an infant girl who wouldn’t stop crying. She was hungry, had a fracture in her little left leg and had survived several hours of a chilly night inside a bush. Abandoned in nothing but a piece of cloth, the girl was a fighter already.Rescued by police on December 20, the infant is now undergoing treatment at the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) of the Government Institute of Medical Sciences in Greater Noida. She was initially diagnosed with jaundice and had fractured her left leg when someone probably threw her in the bushes. Nurses said she was recovering well.”On December 20, we found the infant wrapped only in a piece of cloth. Her condition was quite critical. We brought her to the police station here,” said Vinod Kumar Singh, the SHO of Knowledge Park police station.The cops tried hard, but couldn’t stop the baby’s cries. She was hungry, but couldn’t have anything other than milk.Singh took her to his quarters on the floor above. “My husband came up to me and asked if I could feed her. She was in so much pain from the fractured leg. The only thing she needed then was mother’s milk. Although scared, I decided to breastfeed her. I calmed her down and she fell asleep. She was with me for a few hours before being taken to the hospital. I will see her again on Monday. I heard she was stable,” Jyoti told TOI.The girl was first taken to Kailash Hospital. After preliminary treatment, she was admitted to GIMS in keeping with the Child Welfare Committee’s guidelines. “Doctors are monitoring the baby. Her saturation, pulse and all other vitals are normal. Her left leg has been plastered and she will be kept under observation for a few more days,” said Neha Kashyap, a nurse.A woman constable has been deployed outside the GIMS ICU.Dr Rakesh Gupta, the director at GIMS and a retired brigadier, said, “This is a miracle. She survived the cold weather. Thankfully, she is breathing fine.”The police have formed a team to trace the family. The area from where the baby was rescued does not have CCTV cameras.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/a-miracle-thrown-in-bushes-infant-with-a-broken-leg-survives-chilly-night-now-stable/articleshow/96505024.cms
