Click to play videoNew Delhi: Unaware of all the attention that he has received over the last two days, the 24-day-old baby — who had been abandoned at a Gurgaon hospital and was later reunited with his parents on Wednesday — now has an uphill task ahead.
While the 23-day-old baby, who had been abandoned at a Gurgaon hospital and later reunited with his parents on Wednesday, has now been moved to another hospital.
Though financial help has come in with Delhi's Apollo Hospital paying for his treatment, the baby, weighing just 1.6 kg, is however too weak to undergo a surgery immediately to rectify a hole in his heart.
It was after the major heart problem was detected in the baby that the parents had allegedly abandoned him at the Life Line Hospital in Gurgaon.
"They are feeding the baby through a tube and making it healthy so that it can be operated upon. Because this kind of an operation cannot be conducted on such a small baby," Rajesh Ranjan, the father of the baby, says.
Doctors say improvement is certain. However, it is going to be slow.
"The doctors also suspect that the child may have some infection as blood counts are high. We are carrying out tests to confirm this," Dr Karan Thakur, PRO at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, says.
While there is still some time for the actual surgery to take place, what is heartening to know after speaking to the doctors and his parents is that the baby is going to survive to see the world after all the uncertainties that had surrounded his within just days of his birth.
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