In a remarkable medical rescue, doctors at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Gurgaon revived a premature baby boy who arrived with no detectable heartbeat or breathing, after being found abandoned shortly after birth. The newborn, weighing just 1.5 kg, was brought to the hospital by Sector 29 police, prompting an urgent life saving response from the emergency and neonatal teams.
The incident occurred last month when police discovered the newborn abandoned. The baby was rushed to Max Super Speciality Hospital, Gurgaon, in an extremely critical state.
When doctors first examined him, the infant’s umbilical cord and placenta were still attached, indicating that the birth had taken place only a short while earlier.
Medical staff reported that the baby was cold to the touch, limp, cyanotic and severely hypothermic. He was not breathing, and doctors were unable to detect a heartbeat or oxygen saturation levels, leaving the team facing a life threatening emergency.
A team led by Dr. Camelia Nongrum, Head of Emergency, and Dr. Sachin Jain, Senior Consultant in Neonatology, immediately began advanced neonatal resuscitation to revive the baby.
According to Dr. Nongrum, the infant arrived without detectable vital signs, making it one of the most challenging cases handled by the emergency department.
Doctors continued resuscitation efforts for nearly 30 minutes before they were finally able to restore the baby’s heartbeat and breathing, bringing him back from a near lifeless condition.
After the infant showed signs of life, doctors placed him on ventilator support and transferred him to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for continuous monitoring and treatment.
The baby remained on ventilator support for the first 48 hours. By the third day, doctors were able to remove the ventilator and shift him to non invasive positive pressure ventilation as his breathing improved.
Over the following days, his condition continued to stabilize under close medical supervision.
Doctors slowly introduced feeding as the infant’s health improved. The baby was initially given enteral feeds and later paladai feeding, which helped support his recovery.
By the fifth day, the newborn was able to breathe independently without respiratory support.
Hospital staff affectionately began calling him “Baby Max”, and his steady improvement brought encouragement to the entire NICU team.
A member of the NICU staff said that watching the baby recover was deeply moving. His tiny movements, steady weight gain and determination lifted the entire unit, and he became a little fighter everyone cherished.
(Rh/ARC)