The infant who miraculously survived a four-storey fall when his mother threw him out of the window of a Bailey Road house continues to fight for his life at the DMCH.
The 24-day-old child, who is yet to be named and only mentioned as “Baby of Beauty” in the hospital register, is still not out of danger, according to the doctors treating him at the neonatal unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
An eight-member medical board, led by neonatal unit chief Dr Manisha Banarjee, is looking after the boy at the moment. Dr Manisha said the child’s is not yet out of danger.
A bone of the boy’s broken leg has started to protrude from under the skin, while there were other complications with his facial bones and Bilirubin levels as well, Dr Manisha said.
Blood remains clotted inside the child’s head, while he has also required blood transfusions on several occasions. Dr Manisha said the child is now being fed through saline, adding that doctors are trying their best to treat the baby.
On February 1, seventeen-year-old domestic help Beauty Akhter gave birth to the boy in her employer’s home in the capital’s Bailey Road. Fearing social stigma as she was raped and impregnated allegedly by her own brother-in-law, Beauty flung the baby out of a four-storey window as soon as he was born.
After filing a rape case with Ramna Model police station, Beauty is now living with her family in Sirajganj.
Ramna OC Moshiur Rahman, said a number of people have applied to adopt the child. The applications would be analysed and legal procedures would be taken in due time, the OC said.
