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| Yet another abandoned baby found in Srinagar | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 14: Amid shock, the people saw body of an infant early Monday morning in Gogji Bagh area. The police took cognizancfe, registered a case and launched investigation.
This is not an isolated incident, said a local adding bodies of infants have been recovered earlier as well.
Recently, Manzoor Hussain, a resident of Shopian was caught when he approached a gravedigger in Srinagar's old city asking him to dig a grave for his infant baby. He lied to him that infant had died after his wife gave him birth at Srinagar's Lal Ded maternity hospital.
As soon the gravedigger placed the infant inside the grave, the baby suddenly started crying, which caught the attention of the locals. They caught hold of him. He told them that he wanted to bury the infant alive.
He said that he was "very poor and cannot bear" the newly born baby's treatment. Following which police registered the case and admitted the baby to GB Panth children hospital.
The infant was born with congenital disorder. He is suffering from Meningoencephalocele, a type of encephalocele, which is an abnormal sac of fluid, brain tissue, and meninges that extends through a defect in the skull.
In last few years, over 15 abandoned babies have been found inside the LD hospital premises. During 2018, at least seven abandoned babies were found inside the hospital premises and one had disability.
The Lal Ded hospital authorities say it becomes difficult for them to take care of abandoned babies. A one-month-old baby boy who was left to dogs by his parents in a plastic bag at Lal Ded hospital was later adopted by a childless couple of Srinagar.
He was found wrapped in a polythene bag in the backyard of the hospital. It came to light after a laboratory assistant heard the newborn's cries. The CCTV footage had shown an unidentified woman dropping him in the backyard.
"He was administered anti-rabies injections. His conditions improved days after he was treated here," said a female doctor. "We received dozens of people to adopt him. He was bitten by dogs but he had no abnormality. He was treated by nurses. The baby was healthy," she said.
The children with disabilities are not only abandoned by their families but are not being accepted by the society.
Take for instance, Salman, Burhan, and Nouman, who were abandoned by their biological parents. Nobody for months adopted these babies. Salman and Burhan had spent more than a year at Srinagar's GB Panth hospital before adoption.
Burhan, who was born in Lal Ded hospital, was handed over to a childless couple after completion of legal formatives. It was then in October 2017 when they were adopted by a Srinagar family.
"Poverty is the significant contributor for increase in the number of orphans and abandon babies," she said. |
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