Bullet-hit newborn returns to mother’s lap, finally

It was a joyous moment for bullet-injured mother Nazma Begum and her husband Bachchu Bhuiyan as their 23-day-old daughter, who was also bullet-hit in mother’s womb, was released from the neonatal intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the city on Sunday. The baby, now out of danger, finally went to her mother’s lap. ‘I am happy of course. I saw smiling faces of the doctors and nurses when they returned my baby to me. There is no bandage on my daughter now,’ said Nazma Begum. Overwhelmed by happiness, she said, ‘I will keep my Suraiya (baby’s name) in my lap round the clock.’ Nazma is now undergoing treatment at cabin No. 48 of DMCH’s Old Building. She said that she had been feeling well now and fast recovering from her wounds. Pregnant Nazma and her baby in the womb were injured and her uncle-in-law was killed on July 23 during a shootout between two rival groups of the ruling Awami League-backed youth and student organizations—the Juba League and Chattra League respectively. Nazma needed caesarean section on the same day to give birth to the bullet-hit child at Magura Sadar Hospital and the baby was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital two days later in critical condition. Nazma too was brought to DMCH later for better treatment and so that she could remain closer to her newborn. Her husband Bachchu said, ‘I am very happy to get back my little angle in a healthy condition. I can’t express my satisfaction in words.’ Paediatric surgery department associate professor Kaniz Hasina Shiuli, who had been supervising the treatment of the newborn, was also satisfied as she could give the baby back to its mother’s lap in a healthy condition. She said that it was her first experience of giving treatment to a baby shot in mother’s womb. ‘The baby is almost out of danger. She is improving and the level of hemoglobin in her blood was now normal.’ Shiuli said that they would observe the baby’s condition for two more days and then the medical board that cared for the baby round the clock would have a meeting to decide about releasing of the baby with her mother.

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