Girl found in sewer in Mumbai discharged from hospital
The baby, released from the hospital on Wednesday, was saved after a “kind Samaritan” called Pant Nagar Police Station to report that a clothed baby had been “thrown down the drain”, Mumbai Police posted on Twitter on Monday. Mumbai police said: ‘He was alerted when the neighbors cats caused a commotion.
Senior police inspector Suhas Kamble told CNN the baby was rescued Sunday by Sheetal Sonawane, a policewoman from one of Mumbai’s women’s safety units known as the Nirbhaya team.
The baby was admitted to Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai and monitored before being discharged on Wednesday to the police, according to Vidya Thakur, the hospital’s medical director.
“She was perfectly fine when she was hospitalized but we were a bit worried because she was abandoned and found in the sewer, but she is fine,” Thakur told CNN on Thursday. “Our doctors immediately treated her…she was discharged yesterday, she is fine.”
After discharge, the baby was handed over to the Child Welfare Commission of Mumbai and is being cared for in a shelter, Kamble said.
On Sunday, police registered a first information report (FIR) against unidentified persons because of “the contact and neglect of the child by a parent or caregiver” , according to the relevant section of the penal code of India.
“The investigation is ongoing,” Kamble added.
Gender inequality is widespread in India, where son preference has led to the birth of millions of “unwanted” girls, who often face discrimination in the community. their copper.
In October 2019, a 4-day-old girl was saved after she was found buried alive at a cemetery in northern India.
The newborn was pulled to safety by an unsuspecting couple in the state of Uttar Pradesh as they were burying their dead baby in a hospital.
CNN’s Jack Guy contributed to this report.