Bhubaneswar: Neonatologists at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, here have been successful in nursing a baby weighing just over 500 gram at birth to good health over the last two years.
The premature baby, who was born on May 23, 2018, weighed only 505 gram at birth and had to be put in the neo-natal ICU where the doctors looked after her for nearly six months.
“She was the tiniest baby I had seen and she held the record of having the lowest birth weight. She was born after 25 weeks of pregnancy in Odisha,” Dr Jagadish Prasad Sahoo, Head of the Superspecialty Department of Neonatology in the hospital, said.
Dr Sahoo said it was the first case that a baby of such low birth weight had survived and her health condition improved. Her mother, who had multiple health complications, had suffered five miscarriages earlier.
“We are grateful to the team of doctors and nurses who took such
great care of our daughter and nursed her to health,” the baby’s father said.
The neonatologist team included Dr Debasish Nanda, Dr Ratan Das, Dr Bhagirathi Mallick, Dr Rosalin Rout, Dr Payal Pradhan and Dr Binit Panigrahi.
