Bongaigaon District, Assam: A one-week-old baby girl, sold by desperate parents in Assam's Bongaigaon district allegedly because they could not settle hospital bills, has been rescued by the district administration and is back with her parents.
20-year-old Sabita Narzary had delivered a baby girl last week at a private hospital in the district. Her husband Philip is a daily wage earner. They live in the state's Chirang district and had gone to the adjoining Bongaigaon government hospital for the delivery. The couple say they were referred to the private hospital by government doctors who told them the delivery would require a cesarean operation and that the local government hospital could not manage it in the given infrastructure.
Bongaigaon Deputy Commissioner Biswajit Pegu refused to share too many details of the incident, or the rescue. "We have handed the baby over to the parents. So far, from our questioning of the couple, we have not managed to find any evidence of the couple being forced by any nurse at the private hospital to sell their child," is all he was willing to say.
The local unit of the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) has filed a First Information Report or FIR against the private hospital management. The police says they are investigating the case.
There are no answers yet from the government on why the government doctors the couple went to, forced them to seek private help instead.
20-year-old Sabita Narzary had delivered a baby girl last week at a private hospital in the district. Her husband Philip is a daily wage earner. They live in the state's Chirang district and had gone to the adjoining Bongaigaon government hospital for the delivery. The couple say they were referred to the private hospital by government doctors who told them the delivery would require a cesarean operation and that the local government hospital could not manage it in the given infrastructure.
Bongaigaon Deputy Commissioner Biswajit Pegu refused to share too many details of the incident, or the rescue. "We have handed the baby over to the parents. So far, from our questioning of the couple, we have not managed to find any evidence of the couple being forced by any nurse at the private hospital to sell their child," is all he was willing to say.
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The local unit of the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) has filed a First Information Report or FIR against the private hospital management. The police says they are investigating the case.
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There are no answers yet from the government on why the government doctors the couple went to, forced them to seek private help instead.
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