The incident took place on Tuesday around 6.30 am at Khammam Government Hospital, where the baby girl was born.
Ramadevi, a native of Kadndukuru in Telangana’s Vemsuru mandal, had to come to Khammam Government Hospital to seek treatment for her 16-day-old baby girl. A few moments later, the baby was abducted from the hospital. The baby was born in the same hospital. The incident took place on Tuesday around 6.30 am.
The mother, Ramadevi, suspects a woman who befriended her when the baby started crying in the hospital. According to Ramadevi, the woman, who did not identify herself, took the baby from the grandmother, claiming that she will give the newborn milk and take her to the doctor’s room.
Ramadevi said she had gone to the washroom, leaving the child with the maternal grandmother. “But as I came out of the washroom, I saw an unknown woman giving milk to my baby, who was crying. Minutes later, the woman took my baby to the ground floor, saying she has to be given injection, and then fled with the child.”
The parents and relatives started searching for the baby in and around the hospital premises, but to no avail. The family then reached out to the Resident Medical Officer who was on duty at the time of the incident. The RMO then alerted the police.
CCTV footage from the hospital shows a woman walking away from one of the halls of the mother-child healthcare section.
A woman abducts a 16 days old baby girl from GGH Khammam, police search for missing baby is underway.@thenewsminute @NitinBGoode #Telangana pic.twitter.com/k8ypdSNmhg
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“The mother has identified the unknown woman in the CCTV footage. If she had complained immediately, we would have traced the baby right away,” the RMO said while addressing the media.
Based on the missing person complaint from the mother, Khammam Two Town police have begun the search for the missing baby.
Earlier, in May, an eight-day-old infant, who had gone missing from the government general hospital in Sangareddy, was traced in Yellareddy town, which is located in neighbouring Kamareddy.
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