Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday expressed their concern over the deteriorating condition of the baby hit by bullet in the womb of her mother,
They said the baby continued to lose weight but the premature baby is receiving the best treatment.
Her condition is stable except for weight loss. “But anything could happen anytime,” said one of the doctors.
The jaundice level has gone down and the baby was responding to her mother positively. She was also breastfed at an interval of two hours.
Suraiya Begum, the bullet-ridden baby was taken to the DMCH after an emergency cesarean at Magura Genera Hospital on July 23.
Later, her mother Nazma Begum was also taken to the DMCH on July 30.
On July 31, Suraiya was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and her mother to Ward 212 on July 31.
Dr Kaniz Hasina, Paediatrics Department’s associate professor who had been overseeing Suraiya’s treatment since she arrived at the hospital, said: “Suraiya is losing weight everyday. Yesterday she was 1720gm but today 1620gm.”
According to the doctors, normal weight of a newborn is about 2500gm.
She said: “We had injected blood into her body and increased frequency of breastfeeding.”
The baby was injured when her eight-month pregnant mother was shot in the abdomen during an attack by a Jubo League faction on another faction on July 23 in Magura that left one killed and another person injured.
The bullet went through the unborn baby’s right shoulder and damaged her right eye. She was born after a three-hour-long operation at Magura General Hospital.
Meanwhile, Chhatra League leader Sen Suman was placed on a seven-day remand over the shootout that injured the child in Magura.
Magura’s Judicial Magistrate Farha Mamun gave the order yesterday.
Police produced Suman, vice-president of Chhatra League’s Magura unit, before the court seeking a ten-day remand.
But the court granted seven days.
