10 rescued babies shifted from ESI Hospital to home

The ten babies, rescued from a home for old and mentally challenged persons by the CID in connection with its probe into the international child trafficking racket, were today shifted from the ESI Hospital Joka to a home.
According to a senior official of the CID, the ten babies, all girl children of approximately one to 10 months age underwent treatment at the ESI Hospital Joka.
The babies were rescued from the third floor of the home on November 25 in unhealthy state.
"The health conditions of the babies have improved and the doctors have declared them fit. They have been taken to a home in the city but will be under medical surveillance," a senior official of the state health department told PTI this evening.

One baby was reportedly Thalassemic while others were suffering from malnutrition and skin diseases, doctors at the ESI Hospital in Joka had said.
Twenty persons were arrested and booked under murder charges, besides several other charges in connection with the child trafficking racket busted in North 24 Parganas district's Baduria last month.
The net was found to be spread in the city and neighbouring areas during subsequent CID raids.