{"id":4130,"date":"2021-04-16T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2024-09-22T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T11:47:19","slug":"baby-farzanas-health-is-now-secured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/2021\/04\/16\/baby-farzanas-health-is-now-secured\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Farzana\u2019s health is now secured"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4130\" class=\"elementor elementor-4130\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06b2e30 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"06b2e30\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-987cbcc e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"987cbcc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa9c116 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fa9c116\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cI gave birth to triplets. Three daughters. All of them were severely underweight. One of my daughters died that day.\u201d said Hajera, clutching Farzana, her sole-surviving daughter, tightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not long afterwards another of her babies, who was born with hydrocephalus \u2013 fluid on the brain \u2013 also died.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Worried that she would also lose her last child, Hajera, 20, took Farzana to a government hospital. \u201cBut the government hospital could not provide me with the medicines. With no one else to provide for my daughter, I was very anxious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the family of another patient at the hospital told her about Calcutta Rescue: \u201cI heard that Calcutta Rescue has people who can help my baby. So I came here. Farzana was two months old at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hajera-and-Baby-Farzana-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"405\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 304px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 304\/405;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hajera-and-Baby-Farzana-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"405\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Ensuring Farzana thrived became a priority for Sheila, who runs CR\u2019s Mother and Child Health Unit at Talapark Clinic, from the moment she first saw her in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since then she has been giving Hajera the baby food, nutrients and vitamins Farzana needs to grow and has kept in regular touch with her, providing support, reassurance and monitoring the baby\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It takes Hajera an hour to reach the clinic by bus and she always comes alone. Hajera explains: \u201cNo one ever comes with me. My husband and mother-in-law don\u2019t like that I gave birth to daughters.\u201d She lives with her husband\u2019s family 12 kilometres from the clinic. He is a jute worker who lost his job during the Covid lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many of the people in Kolkata\u2019s slums have lost their jobs during the Covid crisis and now do not have enough to eat. This is likely to have been a factor in why Hajera\u2019s babies were born severely underweight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calcutta Rescue has just started research into the impact of the Covid crisis on the welfare of people in the slums, and is providing food to hundreds of families struggling to find enough to eat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After 5 months of continuous care, Farzana has at last reached a healthy weight. A grateful Hajera said: \u201cThank you so much for helping my daughter. 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One of my daughters died that day.\u201d said Hajera, clutching Farzana, her sole-surviving daughter, tightly. \u00a0 Not long afterwards another of her babies, who was born with hydrocephalus \u2013 fluid on the brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benefeciary-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4140,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/4140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmg.org.in\/calcuttarescue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}