The two-month-old baby boy found in an abandoned condition in Paribagh area of the city early Wednesday has been given special treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The infant was rescued by a vagrant woman, Taslima, and admitted to the hospital on Friday as he had high fever with the help of some youths from Wapda Colony area of Paribagh under the name Al-Mamun.
But later the doctors found that he is also suffering from malnutrition and anaemia. It would take some time for his cure, Khaja Abdul Gafur, assistant director of the DMCH, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Visiting the baby at ward number 208, it was found that the homeless woman was addressing the baby as “Amar Bachcha” (my baby). She was happy that the baby had been given milk.
The youths, all volunteers of Hashimukh – a school for street children at Paribagh, have been attending the baby and the woman at the hospital by turn. One of them, Mehnaz Zakir Promi said that they first took Al-Amin to BSMMU but found no duty doctor there. They then took the baby to the DMCH where the doctors fed the baby.
Mehnaz said that the doctors were very cordial towards the baby. They provided free medicine and milk for the child.
“It is Taslima who is working hard for the baby and staying at the hospital all the time although she has to manage her daily foods from the street,” she said.
Zubair Al Ebad, a first year student of Chittagong University and also teacher of Hashimukh, gave blood for the baby early yesterday.