Battered baby Falak dies after battling odds for two months

PTI

New Delhi, 15 Mar 2012: Losing her two-month-long grim battle for survival, two-year-old battered baby girl Falak, whose harrowing ordeal had shocked the country, died here tonight following a cardiac arrest.

 

The child, who was admitted to the AIIMS on January 18 with severe head injuries, broken arms, bite marks all over her body and cheeks branded with hot iron, breathed her last at 9.40 PM after an "unexpected" heart attack, doctors said.

 

"It was unexpected. She was fit to be discharged. All of a sudden, she had a cardiac arrest at nine and we tried to revive her. But then she gave up at around 9.40 PM," said Deepak Agrawal, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the AIIMS Trauma Centre who has been attending on her from the day she was admitted there.

 

During her treatment earlier, she contracted meningitis and underwent five surgeries and had also suffered two heart attacks.