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Sub-Inspector of Badda police Nawshad Ali said the parents of Aayan could not be identified yet.
A three-member medical board, headed by Department of Neonatology chair Prof Monisha Banerjee, has been formed to supervise Aayan’s treatment. Aayan is being administered antibiotics as he still has infections.
Once Aayan is fully recovered, the hospital authorities will contact the Social Welfare Department, she told Bangla Tribune, adding, “We will write to the hospital director on Sunday to contact the social welfare department and then the baby will be shifted to Shishumoni Nibash (child care) as per the government rule.”
Dr Banarjee said many people have already shown interest to adopt Aayan. “Since a general diary has been filed with police, people wishing to adopt will have to follow certain procedure. We can’t do anything about the adoption here,” she said.He was abandoned right after his birth. Passersby found him wrapped in a plastic bag at a garbage dump in the capital’s Badda area on July 10. A woman completely unknown, unattached to him pulled him out of garbage. She could be the first to show him some compassion, perhaps love.
The locals immediately called the Badda police before the infant was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a grim condition.
He was mentioned as “unknown” in the admission form of the hospital. Many staff of the hospital would also call him “bed number seven”, since there was none to give him a name.
But that’s not how humanity works.
If you visit the child in DMCH now, you would find him thriving and cannot help but notice a placard hung around his cot that reads: “Please don’t call me unknown baby. From now I am Aayan Afraz.” As if the baby is shouting out his existence.
Pendora Glory, a staff at the DMCH neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), told Bangla Tribune: “I have been taking care of the baby for the last few days. He had always been referred as ‘unknown baby’ or ‘bed number seven’. It made me feel so bad. I was wondering how come a human being will have no name.
“So we decided to give him a name followed by a small celebration. Now, everybody calls him by his name [Aayan]. That’s what I wanted. I would have felt much better if Aayan could be returned to his parents.”
The staff of the neonatal department had bought a small birthday cake and decorated the NICU ward with balloons for the naming ceremony. They also put him in new clothes.
Photo courtesy: Bangla Tribune
Sub-Inspector of Badda police Nawshad Ali said the parents of Aayan could not be identified yet.
A three-member medical board, headed by Department of Neonatology chair Prof Monisha Banerjee, has been formed to supervise Aayan’s treatment. Aayan is being administered antibiotics as he still has infections.
Once Aayan is fully recovered, the hospital authorities will contact the Social Welfare Department, she told Bangla Tribune, adding, “We will write to the hospital director on Sunday to contact the social welfare department and then the baby will be shifted to Shishumoni Nibash (child care) as per the government rule.”
Dr Banarjee said many people have already shown interest to adopt Aayan. “Since a general diary has been filed with police, people wishing to adopt will have to follow certain procedure. We can’t do anything about the adoption here,” she said.
Photo courtesy: Bangla Tribune
Sub-Inspector of Badda police Nawshad Ali said the parents of Aayan could not be identified yet.
A three-member medical board, headed by Department of Neonatology chair Prof Monisha Banerjee, has been formed to supervise Aayan’s treatment. Aayan is being administered antibiotics as he still has infections.
Once Aayan is fully recovered, the hospital authorities will contact the Social Welfare Department, she told Bangla Tribune, adding, “We will write to the hospital director on Sunday to contact the social welfare department and then the baby will be shifted to Shishumoni Nibash (child care) as per the government rule.”
Dr Banarjee said many people have already shown interest to adopt Aayan. “Since a general diary has been filed with police, people wishing to adopt will have to follow certain procedure. We can’t do anything about the adoption here,” she said.