Summary:
Meenu, the name given by hospital authorities to the girl, was abandoned by her parents at the hospital after they came to know that her child was born with a tumour in 2017. The hospital authorities conducted a frantic search of her parents based on the address furnished by them at the time of admitting her mother to the hospital. Meenu was born at Kolkata Medical College and Hospital on October 3, 2017 and had battled a rare type of tumour. Hospital authorities were looking for someone who can adopt the child through a formal procedure prescribed by the government. This apart, we had celebrated her birthday twice at the hospital premise," said Dr Ajay Kumar Das, RMO-Cum Clinical Tutor, paediatric surgery department..