Kollam: A two-day-old baby found abandoned in a garbage heap at a house in Kollam died during treatment at SAT Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, on Tuesday.
It was on Tuesday early morning that the baby boy was found at the house compound of Sasidharan of Oozhayikkodu, Kalluvathukkal. Hearing the cries of a baby around 4am, Sasidharan’s son-in-law Vishnu started searching on house premises and found an infant, fully dressed up, lying in a heap of dry leaves. The baby’s umbilical cord had not been cut off and it was bathed in blood.
The family informed Parippally police and they shifted the baby to Medical College Hospital, Parippally. Later, the baby was shifted to SAT Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
Health authorities have started an enquiry about child births in the area over the last couple of days. Police have also intensified the enquiry to identify the mother of the baby.