At a government hospital in Hyderabad, a beautiful baby girl, not even four days old, has been abandoned by her family. The girl is not being breastfed by her mother, who insists that she gave birth to a boy.
“How can I feed the baby girl when I was told I gave birth to a boy?” asks 22-year-old Rajitha, a tribal woman from Mahbubnagar. She has given birth to her second baby just 14 months after she had a daughter.
On Tuesday afternoon, Rajitha and another woman, Rama, gave birth to babies within minutes of each other at Hyderabad’s Government Maternity Hospital.
The hospital administration admits that there was a mix-up and news was wrongly conveyed to one family. It is the babies who are paying for that mistake.
Rajitha complains of extreme pain and discomfort because she is not feeding her newborn, yet she stubbornly says she will feed only the baby boy.
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The hospital says a DNA test will now establish the biological parents of the newborns. Till then, the babies are almost like orphans, abandoned in a sterile hospital unit.