News - Parents Abandon Newborn because of looks

A baby girl born prematurely on 31st May, in the seventh month of pregnancy, the girl was born in Dhanau, a coastal district 150 km off Mumbai and weighed a little over 800 gms. The average birth weight for a girl is 2.4 kgs in India.
A rare skin disease makes this three-week-old infant look like she’s 60. What’s appalling is that her parents have abandoned her right after birth because the mother was embarrassed by the way she looks.
the yet-to-be-named baby girl is struggling to survive in Mumbai’s Wadia Hospital.

A battery of tests are being done on her to diagnose the exact medical condition, but doctor’s say, this is a very rare chromosomal abnormality which makes her look prematurely old.

Her parents, Mamata and Ajay Dode, both 25-years-old were horrified to look at their newborn and refused to accept her. They were expecting the infant to resemble their first child, a 3-year-old girl. The mother did not even feed her.
The infant’s grandfather, a 50 year old labourer, fed her goat milk for a week, so she survived. When her condition deteriorated, he got the baby to Mumbai’s Wadia Hospital for treatment.
A team of doctors at Mumbai’s Wadia Hospital are treating the girl round-the-clock free of cost. She is being fed breast milk from the Human Milk Bank and her weight has now increased to 910 gms.

It is shocking that such incidents occur in this day and age. The heartwarming story is that the hospital and the grandfather are leaving no stone unturned to see that the girl survives.