Department of Pediatrics, North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Indian J Pediatr. 2019 Apr;86(4):335-339. doi: 10.1007/s12098-018-2838-2. Epub 2019 Jan 7.
In India, girls are sex-selectively abandoned. The abandoned babies are brought to the nearest hospital under the jurisdiction of the administration. The authors aimed to study the demographic data and disease profile of those babies.
In this hospital-based, retrospective, descriptive study, authors studied all the abandoned babies who were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics as "unknown" and cared for over the last 3 y. Their case records were analyzed with an appropriate statistical measure.
Out of 11 babies, girl-boy ratio was 2.6:1, 73% being abandoned in the neonatal period with a survival rate of 91%. Six babies (54.5%) required emergency intervention at admission. Hospital stay was higher in girls with mean discharge time being 106 d, although the mean fit for discharge time was 6.5 d.
This study is the first of its kind on abandoned babies demographic data and disease profile, highlighting the burden of abandoned babies in the hospital.
在印度，存在性别选择性遗弃女婴的现象。被遗弃的婴儿会被送到最近的医院，由行政部门接管。本研究旨在分析这些婴儿的人口统计学数据和疾病特征。
本研究为医院回顾性描述性研究，作者分析了过去 3 年中，在儿科以“未知”身份入院的所有被遗弃婴儿的病例记录，采用适当的统计方法进行分析。
11 名婴儿中，男女比例为 2.6:1，73%在新生儿期被遗弃，存活率为 91%。6 名婴儿（54.5%）入院时需要紧急干预。女孩的住院时间较长，平均出院时间为 106 天，尽管平均适合出院时间为 6.5 天。
本研究首次对被遗弃婴儿的人口统计学数据和疾病特征进行了分析，突显了医院中被遗弃婴儿的负担。
