SINGAPORE: A baby girl beat the odds after being left for dead in Vietnam last month and is recovering at a Singapore hospital.
Trieu Hoai An, who turned one month old on Wednesday, was found in a plastic bag hanging from a tree in a coffee plantation by a farmer, who took her to a hospital in Vietnam’s Lam Dong province on March 29.
The sunburnt baby had insect bites and a festering wound in her badly swollen head. Maggots were found in her eyes and nose.The doctors said there was little they could do and gave her less than a year to live. The baby was adopted by the abbess Trieu Thi Thien Kim of the Hue Quang temple near Da Lat and was named Hoai An.
The abbess raised US$25,000 through the temple’s charity networks and social media, and took Hoai An to Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital for further treatment.In the two weeks since she was admitted, Hoai An has recovered remarkably quickly, said neurosurgeon Dr Tang Kok Kee. — The Straits Times/Asia News Network
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