Conductor, passengers help cops to admit baby boy to hospital
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Chennai: A few hours after his birth, a baby boy was place in a gunny bag and abandoned inside an MTC bus in Tambaram bus depot on Tuesday evening. The conductor and passengers who found the baby handed over the child to policemen who got the baby admitted to a hospital.
At around 5.30 pm, MTC bus (route no.515) plying between Tambaram and Mahabalipuram started from the Tambaram bus terminus. A few minutes later, passengers heard the sound of a child crying incessantly. It was later found that the sound came from a gunny bag near the conductor’s seat. When the bus reached Perungalathur bus stop, passengers and MTC staff handed the baby to Peerkankarani police station. “When we received the baby, it had
bloodstains all over the body. We took the baby to a primary health care centre nearby and got it cleaned up,” Peerkankaranai Inspector P. Vijayan told DC.
Passengers also brought the baby clothes and fed him, the inspector said adding that the child was healthy. Based on a complaint from MTC staff, Satish Kumar, Peerkankaranai police issued a community service register (CSR) and informed Childline officials.
Later, in the day a Childline representative took custody of the baby and moved it to the Chengelpet Medical College hospital. “Since it was clear that the baby was born on Tuesday, we have notified all government and private hospitals in the city and neighbouring districts to provide us with details of women who gave birth that particular day,” said a senior police officer.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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