Battered baby Falak still critical, back on ventilator

New Delhi: After showing marginal improvement in her condition, two-year-old baby Falak is back on the ventilator with difficulty in breathing, doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said yesterday.

The baby was abandoned in a battered condition at the AIIMS more than three weeks ago.

"The baby was put off the ventilator as her chest infection had cleared and the blood infection had also subsided. But she developed some difficulty in breathing on Saturday and had to be put back on it," said Deepak Agrawal, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the AIIMS trauma centre.

Falak was brought to AIIMS by a teenage girl on January 18 with a fractured skull, bruises and human bite marks all over her tiny frame.

The baby has undergone three surgeries so far and doctors say she is stable but critical.