Neonatologists at the SUM Hospital here have performed a near miracle by nursing a tiny little baby weighing just over 500 grams at birth, to good health over the last two years.
The premature baby, who was born on May 23, 2018, weighed only 505 gram at birth and had to be put in the neo-natal ICU where the doctors looked after her for nearly six months.
“She was the tiniest baby I had seen and inquiries revealed that she held the record of being the baby with lowest birth weight born after 25 weeks of pregnancy in Odisha,” Head of the Superspecialty Department of Neonatology Dr Jagadish Prasad Sahooq said.https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif
The baby was born after 16 years of marriage of her parents. Christened Sai Sampurna, she was under constant monitoring of the neonatologists of the hospital and was now in good health.
“Babies of such low birth weight, even if they survive, don’t register proper physical and mental growth. But in case of Sai Sampurna, she has been developing well,” Dr. Sahoo, who led the team of neonatologists, said.