A married woman of Sundargarh district after delivering a boy child in the Sundargarh District Headquarters Hospital abandoned the child and fled the hospital. Meanwhile, the infant died after nine days of treatment.

The husband of woman had no idea about his wife’s pregnancy and refused that he was the father as he had married her just four months ago.

However, on Friday, the mother of the deceased child came to the Sundargarh DHH to claim the body after police intervention. The police handed over the body after conducting the post mortem and other formalities.

Meanwhile,the Sundargarh DHH has kept the femur bone of the deceased child as per advise of the police for a DNA test.

According to sources, a pregnant woman, aged about 20 years along with her mother had reached the Sundargarh DHH at around 5 pm on August 13 complaining labor pain and had mentioned her name as Prakasini Jurale, wife of Gatiram Jurale, a resident of Girisoma village under Hemigiri police station.

At around 12.15 am on August 14, she gave birth to a boy child. Since the weight of baby boy was a little more than 1 kg and his health condition was critical, he was shifted to SNCU.

The mother of the baby boy was found missing from the hospital bed on August 14 morning.

On August 21 at around 11.45 pm, the child died. Hospital authorities informed Hemgiri police about the death of child and about the unclaimed body.

The police after registering a UD case had started an inquiry to ascertain about the mother of deceased. “We suspect that she might have pre marital relationship. Since her husband is refusing that he is not father of the child, as per our instruction, femur bone of deceased son of woman has been kept in hospital. If require, we will do DNA test to know the father of child,”

Hemgiri police station IIC Sradhanjali Subudhi said.

Newborn dies as mom flees hosp of shame