The condition of the battered two-year-old baby girl, who is under treatment at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences' Trauma Centre here, has registered a marginal improvement with the doctors deciding to take her off the ventilator on Friday morning.
“Her chest X-ray was clear on Thursday and her bio-chemical parameters indicated that she was responding to treatment. Though in a coma, she is responding to the antibiotics given to her and so we decided to take her off the ventilator,'' said Trauma Centre associate professor Dr. Deepak Aggrawal.
“Though the pneumonic patches on the child's chest have cleared up, the culture shows presences of infection in the chest, brain and blood. We have drained out some pus collection from the head. The child continues to be in a state of deep unconsciousness and is still very critical,'' added Dr. Aggarwal.
The baby was brought to the institute on January 18 with multiple injuries on her brain, arm and bite marks on her body. A teenaged girl had brought the infant to AIIMS claiming to be its mother.