A 10-month-old girl who was suffering from unstable painful breathing due to underlying lung and chest trauma following a road accident in Dombivali town of the district, has been successfully treated at Fortis Hospital in eastern suburb of Mulund.

The girl, was walking with her mother to her grandmother’s house recently, when the mother’s handbag got stuck in the handle of a passing-by motorbike, jerking both the mother and baby onto the busy street and a passing autorickshaw run-over the little girl. Pedestrians and motorists, who witnessed the accident, helped the mother take her baby to a nearby hospital where the girl underwent a full body CT scan. It revealed an isolated chest trauma with accumulation of air and blood around the lungs and blunt trauma to the chest, putting the child in terrible pain and as a result, the child could not breathe properly.

Due to lack of infrastructure and medical expertise in that hospital, the child was shifted to Fortis Hospital, Mulund. The child was immediately admitted under the care of Dr Jesal Sheth, senior consultant pediatric and neonatal intensivist at the hospital, who put her on pain control medications and antibiotics supplemented with a high-flow oxygen to treat the child. The treatment was conducted in the second week of February, a release issued by Fortis on 28 February said.

Speaking about the case, Dr Sheth said, "The child was brought in with traumatic shock and was crying profusely, as she was in tremendous pain. We immediately put her on pain medications and supported her breathing by a lung support device to stabilise her breathing. The baby responded well and was kept for a few days under observation. She is now discharged and the parents have been advised to follow-up for treatment."