Srinagar: Hours after CNN-IBN broadcast the story of a five-day-old girl, abandoned due to a cleft lip, responses began streaming in with couples calling from Coimbatore and Bangalore to Chandigarh and the Kashmir valley. Voluntary groups have promised to find a new home for her.
"We are getting calls and at least some couples sound serious to give her a home," Doctor Muneer Masoodi of GB Pant hospital said.
Help Foundation Chairperson Nighat Shafi Pandit said, "There are many parents who want a child and they do not care that she has a cleft lip."
Doctors at the GB Pant hospital have kept her on a ventilator at the ICU. Though her split lip prevents her from drinking milk for now, she is being fed via tubing. The girl's light has social networking sites abuzz too, with people offering advice and help....
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09:28 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Srinagar: A five-day old baby girl, born with a cleft lip, has been left abandoned by her parents in a Srinagar hospital. No one has come forward to claim the infant, who is now being fed through a tube. She hasn't got her name yet, but those who could have given her one, her parents, abandoned her in the corridor of a paediatric hospital. Born with a cleft lip, the...
08:37 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued notice to Haryana government in the wake of a reported spurt in cases of aby girls being abandoned in the state. "The NHRC has issued notice to the Haryana's chief secretary, asking him to submit a report on allegations, as reported in the media, that incidents of abandoned infant girls have recently shot up in the state," said a...
01:48 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Gurgaon: A baby boy was found abandoned near the main market of this technical hub of Haryana, police said, adding that this was the fourth such case in less than a month. The other three abandoned children were girls. The baby, who seemed only four to five days old was heard crying in the Jain Baradari area near the Sadar Bazar late on Friday by passers-by, who informed police. City...
11:26 PM, May 12, 2012
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11:55 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Baby Falak's five-year-old brother was found in Uttam Nagar in Delhi on Wednesday. He will be handed over to Munni, who has claimed to be the two-year-old's mother. The boy had been missing for months and a search was launched in Delhi and Bihar after Munni's story came to light. Munni has undergone a DNA test and the results are awaited. Earlier, in a major breakthrough in the...
10:10 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS, has been put on ventilator support intermittently since Saturday night. Doctors at the AIIMS hospital are monitoring her brain fluid levels. Doctors have said that her vitals signs are stable as of now but she may undergo her fourth surgery if her condition worsens. A woman named Aarti was arrested last week for pushing the 15-year-old,...
11:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak's condition was very critical, but stable on Wednesday. Doctors attending to her said that it was getting difficult to control her infection. "We are giving anti biotics but dont think we can control the infection," Dr Deepak Agarwal said. He also said that the chances of Falak's survival were now less than 50 per cent. Falak's neurological condition remained the same and she was in...
12:52 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak continued to remain critical on Wednesday with meningitis and brain fluid infection. Doctors have now inserted a pipe into Falak's spinal cord to drain out the water from her brain. Though her vitals are still strong, she remains on a ventilator. Doctors have said that the next 48 hours will be critical for her. Doctors will decide on Wednesday on a new set of antibiotic...
10:20 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Kolkata: As baby Falak battles for life in Delhi, another infant was found be abandoned in a train in West Bengal. Authorities were informed after some passengers found the six-month-old in a coach of the Howrah-New Delhi Toofan Express at Asanol station raised an alarm. The baby was handed over to the Railway police. The baby has been admitted to a hospital in Asanol and is said to be healthy....
10:10 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Baby Falak who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. As doctors perform surgery after surgery on the two-year-old, there are still no concrete leads to who the child's biological parents are. The 2-year-old was on ventilator from Sunday night due to lung infection. With a CT scan showing fluids in her...
08:55 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday claimed that it is close to cracking the case of a two-year-old battered baby admitted in AIIMS here as it questioned a woman who got the child from her biological mother. Investigators said they have identified a crucial link and a woman named Lakshmi is being questioned. The baby Falak was admitted to AIIMS with severe injuries and is battling for life after...
02:23 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The police on Friday launched its investigations into the alleged role of the man involved in the baby brutality case. 2-year-old Falak was brought in a battered condition to AIIMS on January 18 by a 15-year-old girl who claimed to be her mother. However, further probe revealed that the girl had received the child from the man she was staying with. Rajkumar, a taxi-driver, who was having an...
06:15 PM, Jan 27, 2012
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11:45 PM, Aug 13, 2007
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05:29 PM, Aug 13, 2007
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10:12 PM, Aug 11, 2007
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12:58 AM, May 03, 2007
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10:51 PM, May 02, 2007
