Baby girl found abandoned in Noida fit, to be discharged, say doctors

The district hospital on Friday said the infant girl found abandoned at a garbage site in Sector 53 was fit to be discharged. The hospital has written to the district magistrate (DM), requesting him to decide where the child should be taken.

The district hospital on Friday said the infant girl found abandoned at a garbage site in Sector 53 was fit to be discharged. The hospital has written to the district magistrate (DM), requesting him to decide where the child should be taken.

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“I have written to the district magistrate, informing him about her condition. She is fit and out of danger. It has been two days and we have not heard from anyone regarding her future,” said Dr Ashok Mishra, chief medical superintendent (CMS), district hospital, Sector 30.

Meanwhile, the DM has directed the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) to take a decision on her future stay.

Childline, a programme under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme, has approached the hospital authorities on the DM’s direction. “The CMS has told me that she is fine. A meeting will be held with the CWC to decide on the next step. Within a day or two, she will be taken to a shelter home,” said Satyaprakash, spokesperson, Childline.

This is the third such incident reported from the city in the past four months. But Noida and Ghaziabad do not have a home for such babies. NGOs have to take them to shelter homes nearby towns like Meerut.

“After she is taken to a shelter, the government will wait for three months for her parents. If they do not show up, we will start the adoption process,” he said.