Post date: Mar 15, 2012 8:50:48 PM
The battered baby, who was battling for life for the last 57 days in All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, had fluctuations in her heart since evening.
India's two-year-old battered baby 'Falak', who was admitted in a premier New Delhi hospital with fractured skull, bruises and human bites marks all over her body in mid-January, dies of cardiac arrest.
NEW DELHI, INDIA (MARCH 15, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI) - India's two-year-old battered baby 'Falak' on Thursday (March 15) died of cardiac arrest in at a premier hospital in New Delhi.
"She started slowing down on heart rate, since evening and then she had a cardiac arrest, and we attempted revival but did not succeed and we declared her dead at 9.40 p.m (IST)," said M.C Misra All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre Chief.
He informed mediapersons that the body of the physically abused child has been sent for autopsy.
"Our procedure is that her body has been sent to the morgue and now forensic experts would conduct the autopsy to ascertain the cause of death. We have already informed the police and there on it is their responsibility," said Misra.
Falak was admitted in the hospital with fractured skull, bruises and human bites marks all over her body. She underwent five life-saving surgeries.
Falak, who has been in coma since the middle of January, had started moving her limbs, but the infection in her brain was the matter of great concern. Doctors, who named the baby Falak (sky, in Urdu), had earlier said that even if she survived, she could suffer the effects of brain damage.