Newborn baby boy goes missing from hospital ward in Odisha

A newborn baby boy was allegedly lifted from the gynecology ward of the district head quarter hospital here in the early hours today and the police are investigating it.
Aniruddha Majhi, the father of the newborn lodged a complaint with the police.
According to him he had admitted his wife Geetanjali in the hospital on March 22 and the infant was born the next day. "But my newborn son is missing from the hsopital."
This was the third such incident since December last year. Two incidents of baby theft were reported in SCB Medical College in Cuttack and the infants were later rescued.

Aniruddha's mother-in-law, Malati Bhue said that her daughter had delivered a male child at around 12 noon yesterday after undergoing caesarian section.
Later an unidentified woman came to her and requested her to allow her to take the baby in her lap. "But as the baby was asleep, I did not allow her and she left the ward. In the night, I slept near my daughter's bed and Aniruddha was sitting beside her. But he dosed off. At around 3 AM on Friday Geetanjali woke up and complained that her newborn son was missing," she said.

Bhue claimed that attendants of some patients in the ward had told her that the unidentified woman was wandering near the ward in the night.

Chief District Medical Officer, Kodanda Rao said police had been informed immediately after getting the news of the "unfortunate" incident.
Hospital sources said only three security guards were on duty in the night and the 64 CCTV cameras that have been installed at the hospital corridors were of poor quality.
Inspector-in-charge of Town Police Station, P K Sahu, who visited the hospital, said the CCTV footages from various locations are being verified and the culprit has been identified.
"We are hopeful that the baby will be found soon," he added.