Dawn (25/11/2006)
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 24: A two-day old girl was recovered alive from a stormwater drain in North Nazimabad on Friday. The infant was stuffed in a sealed plastic bag.
“There was condensed water vapour from her breath visible in the plastic bag before we broke the seal to take the infant out,” said Sarim Burney of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust.
Doctors were astonished to see the infant alive despite being packed in an airtight bag. A leg was found broken during her medical examination which was taken care of by the doctors, Mr Burney said.
“The girl seems to have been delivered at a hospital as a specific tool was attached to her navel for the detachment of the umbilical cord,” he pointed out.
It could not be ascertained whether the infant was dumped on gender ground or she was an unwanted baby.
Describing the infant as ‘very cute’, he said that following her medical treatment, the baby has been kept by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust.
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