Tag: Newborn

Jajpur: In yet another instance of discrimination against girl child, a newborn girl was left to die after being buried alive in a field in Jajpur district. The newborn girl was rescued after a local villager spotted her feet and a 17-year youth pulled her out of the ground with the help of others at […]

Cuttack: A newborn baby went missing from the Gynecology department of the SCB Medical College and Hospital here today. Parents of the newborn filed a complaint at the police outpost on the hospital premises in this regard. More details awaited …

Surat: Failing to deposit new notes in time has allegedly taken life of a new born of an Odia family at a hospital here. The infant, born to Manju Gauda, became critical and the family was asked to deposit Rs 10,000 for its treatment. However, the family members requested the hospital authorities to receive the […]

Kendrapara: Tension ran high on premises of Kendrapara district headquarters hospital here after a newborn allegedly died falling from a doctor’s hand on Friday morning. According to sources, one Jharana Mallick wife of Goutam Mallick of Matiperilo village, delivered a boy this morning. However, the child slipped from the doctor’s hand post delivery, resulting death. […]

Jeypore: In an attempt to stay away from public humiliation, an unwed mother has abandoned her newborn boy at Rabanguda Community Health Centre (CWC) here in the district today. The mother is a resident of Miniguda village under Jayantgiri gram panchayat in Koraput district. The college goer mother had developed a love affair with her […]

Berhampur: A newborn baby was among two persons killed when an ambulance van carrying them collided head-on with an oil tanker on Bada Ghat road under Khallikote police limits in the wee hours today. Reports said a baby boy was born to Laxman Reddy of Kainchapur village at Ganjam government hospital yesterday. But as the […]

New York: In an unusual case, researchers have reported how a newborn baby of an HIV-negative mother got the infection from his father who was also suffering from chicken pox. Fluids leaking from skin blisters of the father was determined to be the source of the infection. “Transmission occurred during the seroconversion period when the […]

New Delhi: In a matter of medical negligence, doctors at a private hospital declared a baby dead here, along with his stillborn twin, and handed the bodies over to family members in a polythene bag. But before burial the baby was found alive. The shocking incident prompted Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain to order a […]

New York: India is among the five countries — Pakistan, Nigeria, Congo and Ethiopia being the others — responsible for half of all new-born deaths in the world, according to a UN report. The report, “Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2017”, revealed that 5.6 million children died before reaching the age of five in […]

Berhampur: A newborn girl was found abandoned on the outskirts of Khandara village in Hinjili area of Ganjam district today. The police rescued the baby and took her first to the community health centre at Hinjili and then the baby was shifted to MKCG Medical College and Hospital here after her condition deteriorated. The villagers […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the child delivery incident on footpath on the premises of Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar came to the fore, the woman who delivered the baby today narrated her shocking ordeal and levelled serious allegations of apathetic attitude by hospital authorities. In an exclusive interview to OTV, the woman Pana Murmu said that […]

Beijing: Amid the novel coronavirus scare around the globe, some good news has emerged about the COVID-19. Chinese researchers have revealed that viral infection is not transmittable from pregnant mothers to newborns at birth. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics, is the second out of China within the last month to confirm […]

London: A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that severe Covid-19 infection appears rare in newborn babies. The study, published in the journal The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, traced all babies less than 29 days old with Covid-19 across the UK, who needed to be admitted into the hospital. The analysis […]