The 10-year-old girl, who became pregnant after she was allegedly raped by her maternal uncle, delivered a baby girl at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Chandigarh. The doctors at the hospital decided to perform a caesarean as the girl's pelvic bones were not strong enough to bear a normal delivery. According to the doctors, both the mother and her child are stable and they would be discharged after they fully recovered. The new born has been kept in an incubator. The child will undergo a paternity test after coming out of the incubator.
Sources said the girl had not been told that she had delivered a child. Her parents had been consistently telling her that she has a stone in her stomach, which needed to be removed. Her father has requested the hospital authorities to put up the new born for adoption.
The girl was forced to deliver the child as the court refused to grant permission to the girl to go for abortion. The Supreme Court too refused to terminate the pregnancy after a panel of experts from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) said it would put the girl's life at risk. The girl's family had approached the court when she was beyond the 20-week legal limit for abortion set by the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.
The baby weighs 2.1kg and is underweight. The 10-year-old too is in the intensive care unit as she has stitches after the delivery. Dr A K Janmeja, head of the gynaecology department at GMCH, said, “This has been a very complicated and unusual case for our hospital. We have submitted the medical reports to the Chandigarh administration. No one has approached us regarding the adoption of the baby.
