article: She was brought into the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) by the police in the early hours of last Wednesday. When I walk in to the nursery, accompanied by her paediatrician Dr Jeeva Sankar, she is awake and fixes her eyes on me. "This is our baby," the paediatrician says. A white band on her left wrist describes her as "unknown female". A full-term healthy baby, her tiny face is perfectly formed and it is impossible to not fall in love with her. "She is beautiful," I say. Veena Bahri, the head nurse, laughs: "Everyone says that." As we stand there chatting, the baby begins to bawl. She is hungry. A nurse picks her up, comforts her. She brings out a small steel cup with a long beak, fills it with milk and starts to feed her. The crying stops instantly. With her belly full, she is calm again. Once she is put down on the bed, she rolls her left hand into a fist and sucks on her fingers. A few minutes later, she yawns. "She's going to sleep now," says Dr Jeeva Sankar. While all the other babies in the nursery are being lovingly held by their parents, this one lies alone. She came into the world "unwanted" and stares at an uncertain future. "We received an anonymous call just after 01:00 informing us that a baby was lying on the pavement in Munirka district of south Delhi. The person who called us had been alerted by the baby's crying," police official Somnath Paruthi told the BBC. When police reached the spot, they found the infant inside a plastic bag, without any clothes, distressed and crying. The winter season is just kicking off in Delhi and in the past couple of weeks, the night temperatures have dipped. To keep the baby warm, a woman constable wrapped her up in a piece of cloth and they rushed her to the hospital. "When she arrived, she was somewhat cold and her blood sugar was low," said Dr Vinod Kumar Paul, who heads the neo-natal department at AIIMS. Her medical file suggests she is now perfectly healthy. There were no signs of any external injury or abuse. "We have given her all the mandatory vaccines and since we know nothing about her history, we are testing her for any infections or birth defects," Dr Paul says, adding that he expects to find nothing wrong with her. "The baby's fine, she's happy, she's eating well, smiling." In the next few days, when all her test results are in, the hospital would declare her fit to be discharged, Dr Paul said. She would then be produced before a child welfare committee of the state government which would place her in the care of an accredited welfare home. The committee would also order the police to try and track down her parents within a fixed time and if the parents are not found, the baby would be put up for adoption. After her story was published in Indian newspapers, Mr
summary: An incubator in the nursery of India's premier medical institute in Delhi has been home to a tiny infant for the past few days.