10-yr-old watches cartoons post delivery, told stone out

Mohit Khanna 

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 17

The 10-year-old-girl who was raped by her uncle gave birth to a girl child through C-section at Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32 here today. The child was born after 35 weeks of pregnancy, which was discovered last month. 

The Supreme Court had last month turned down a plea by the victim’s parents for the termination of pregnancy following a report by a medical board, set up by the PGIMER, which observed this was not possible as the pregnancy was at an advance stage. A similar PIL was refused by a district court in Chandigarh on July 18.

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A team of doctors, including senior gynaecologists  Dr Poonam Goel and Dr Bharti Goel, performed a caesarean  operation at 9.20 am. The victim was told a huge stone in her belly had been removed surgically. After the operation, she spent the day watching her favourite cartoon show on the TV. She was later shifted to a private ward.

The newborn was kept in an incubator at the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU). None from the girl’s family visited the newborn, who will remain in the custody of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Chandigarh, till she is adopted.

Dr Ravi Gupta, Medical Superintendent, GMCH, congratulated the team. “We were under tremendous pressure. it was a sensitive case and the entire nation was watching us. Both the girl and the child are doing well,” he said. The doctors, who met yesterday, had decided on the C-section as the victim’s pelvic bone and muscles were too weak to endure labour pain at full term.