Staff Reporter :Doctors of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) expressed their concern over the deteriorating condition of the baby hit by bullet in the womb of her mother.They said that, the baby continues to lose weight despite receiving the best treatment.Her condition is stable except for weight loss. “But anything could happen anytime,” Dr Kaniz Hasina at DMCH told the reporter on Sunday night. The jaundice level has gone down and the baby was responding to her mother positively. She is being breastfed at an interval of two hours.Suraiya Begum, the bullet-ridden baby was taken to the DMCH after an emergency cesarean at Magura General Hospital on July 23.Her mother Nazma Begum was also taken to the DMCH on July 30.On July 31, Suraiya was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and her mother to Ward No 212 on July 31.Dr Kaniz Hasina, Paediatrics Department’s Associate Professor who has been overseeing Suraiya’s treatment since her arrival at the hospital, said, “Suraiya is losing weight everyday. She was 1720gm on Sunday but today 1520gm. The normal weight of a newborn is about 2500gm. We have injected blood into her body and increased frequency of breastfeeding.” The baby was injured when her eight-month pregnant mother was shot in the abdomen during an attack by a Bangladesh Chhatra League faction on another faction on July 23 in Magura that left one killed and another person injured.The bullet went through the unborn baby’s right shoulder and damaged her right eye.
