Click to play videoAhmedabad: It’s been a week since 17 blasts rocked Gujarat's capital Ahmedabad leaving 55 dead and over a 100 injured. The city is still trying to pick up the pieces and shattered families are still trying to come to terms.
Two-year-old Shetul lost her father Nitin Patel in the blasts that killed many at the Ahmedabad's Civil Hospital. His wife Kamini fights tears for the sake of her daughter.
"I will struggle and make a living to make his dreams for Shetul come true,” she says.
Another parent Ishwar Madhi was also at the hospital on that fateful day. He had come for the treatment of his 15-month-old son but ended up bedridden and scarred.
Another parent for whom the scars of Saturday will never go away is Mohammed Jalil. Jalil's son Mohammed Israr, is dead after battling for his life for a week. CNN-IBN met this distraught father soon after Israr was critically injured in one of the blasts that rocked the city.
A CCTV camera installed at the Civic Hospital trauma centre is barely functional. A tender issued for private, armed security for the hospital has been in limbo since April 2007.
Hospital authorities now realise their vulnerability, a security lapse that cost them dearly.
"The tender will have to be revised for private guards keeping in mind this serious threat," says medical superintendent M Anchalia.
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