Naseer Ganai
SRINAGAR, Sept 20: Forced by the lack of response from the people and NGOs to own a baby girl abandoned by her parents for having cleft palate and cleft lip, the deputy superintendent of the Valley’s only children’s hospital described Kashmir society as callous.
“It has been four days now when a fervent appeal was made for helping her for adoption or personalized care. No one came forward. How long shall we shun our responsibilities by expressing verbal concerns only.
We have more than 5000 NGOs working here but when it comes to act practically everybody washes hands off. Would she survive with such callous attitude of ours?,” reads an angry message of the deputy medical superintendent of G.B Pant Hospital Dr Muhammad Salim Khan.
Four days ago someone abandoned new-born baby girl with cleft palate and cleft lip in the casualty ward of the hospital.
The baby since then has been been kept in the intensive care unit. The doctors in the hospital have made several appeals to people for adoption, but so far no one has come forward.
“First someone should own the child as the hospital will not be able to take care of the child forever. Later, she needs to undergo reconstructive surgery. She will be perfectly alright,” Dr Khan said.
(India Today)
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