A critically ill baby who was struggling with life after her birth, completely recuperated after a lifesaving surgery and a 16-day of treatment at the Aastha Mother and Childcare Hospital (AMCCH) here. The baby girl was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday.
Sources said daughter of Seema Ekka and Jhari Ekka, residents of Singarmunur village under Bargaon police station, was born as their second child at the Sundargarh District Headquarters Hospital on November 10 and diagnosed to have tracheo esophageal fistula. This is a rare congenital condition wherein the food pipe is not formed properly and where the lower end is connected to the wind pipe (trachea) and the upper end is a blind pouch.
Hence, the baby could not be fed and required urgent life-saving surgery.
The parents of the two -day old baby brought her to the AMCCH on November 12, where the surgery was conducted the same night by Dr J Kumar.
She has also a congenital heart disease which was evaluated at the AMCCH by Dr Pankaj Gupta.
