GURGAON: The four-and-a-half-year-old Gurgaon rape victim, who was moved from Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital to Artemis Hospital in Gurgaon on Friday afternoon, is in a shocking condition reminiscent of Nirbhaya's. The little girl has been savaged and disembowelled by her rapist and her condition is critical, doctors said on Friday.







A surgery conducted at Safdurjung on June 16 had, meanwhile, has provided a bypass passage to the child so that she can pass stool. "The child is in a terrible condition with most of her intestine hanging out from her vagina. The child was picked by the police after the incident thinking she was dead after which she was sent to Delhi for treatment. The doctors at Safdurjung have removed part of her injured intestine to make a bypass. "We have attached a bag for stool collection to occur outside the body," described Dr Veena Bhat, Director Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Artemis Hospitals.







The senior gynaecologist described the victim as a child who looks much younger than her age because of nutrition deficiency. She belongs to a lower socio-economic stratum of society. "The man has acted worse than a beast. The child is so small, she looks like a small baby," says Dr Bhat. When asked whether the child had any chance of survival, the doctor said that she would survive but would have to be operated upon multiple times to bring her life anywhere close to normal. The hospital has adopted the child for her medical and social development.



