Vadodara: Soon after she was born on February 6, her mother passed away and father abandoned her in the hospital only to use her as a pawn to for compensation. Let alone take her back home, the baby’s father did not even care to have a look at her when she was born.
After being in the care of the hospital for five days, the man, who is a government employee living in Chansad village near Padra, finally came to take his daughter on Thursday evening when police intervened.
A day after delivering her third child, the girl’s mother died at SSG Hospital during treatment. She was shifted to the government-run hospital as her health had deteriorated. Instead of taking his daughter home, the girl’s father reached Kalpana Uma Diagnostic Hospital on February 8 with 25 of his relatives and created a ruckus. Hospital administration said that he was unwilling to take the daughter home and forcibly took away his wife’s case papers.
The hospital administration contacted the man, but he did not turn up till Wednesday when he came a mob. They raised slogans and threatened the staff following which the hospital made a complaint to the police commissioner. In the complaint, the hospital administration has claimed that while raising slogans on Wednesday, somebody from the mob even said that had it been a baby boy, they would have taken him along but since the woman gave birth to baby girl, they are not worried.
On Thursday, some of the relatives reached the hospital asking the staff to hand over the infant. But the hospital refused since the father had not come and he had not authorized anyone. Finally, police had to intervene because of the complaint and the man agreed to come and take his daughter.
“The man claimed before police that he was expecting some monetary compensation for his wife’s death from hospital, so he did not take his daughter home. The hospital has agreed to forego the outstanding bill on humanitarian grounds,” said the hospital’s lawyer Hitesh Gupta.
“The man was demanding compensation from the hospital which the hospital denied as the woman died of natural reasons. But he agreed to take the daughter home when the hospital agreed to forego the bill,” said inspector V N Mahida of Raopura police station.