A mother has abandoned her new born baby in escaped Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) after giving birth last month.
Director of IGMH's Public Relations and Media Unit, Ahmed Mausoom said that the mother abandoned her child two days after giving birth and that the mother had been discharged from the hospital at the time.
The baby boy was still in IGMH's nursery when his mother left. The child is now in the care of the Gender Ministry.
Mausoom said that mothers are normally be discharged 24 hours after giving birth and the mother could freely leave the hospital. He said that the mother in this case had visited the hospital twice after being discharged but did not show up after that.
"We can't hold them can we? It is a personal responsibility," Mausoom said.
This is the third case this year of a mother abandoning her child after giving birth. The five month old baby who died on the orphanage was also abandoned in the hospital after birth.
