[Vietnam/Singapore] - Baby girl abandoned at birth and left to die inside plastic bag for 5 days before someone rescued her from brink of death

[UltimaOnline]

SINGAPORE - A month-old 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 (April 24), was found in a plastic bag hanging from a tree in a coffee plantation by a farmer who heard her crying.

He took her to a Da Lat City hospital in Vietnam's Lam Dong province, about 300km north-east of Ho Chi Minh City, on March 29.

Doctors there estimated that she had been abandoned for four or five days.

The baby was sunburnt and had numerous insect bites. She had a festering wound in her badly swollen head and squirming maggots were found in her eyes and nose.

The doctors said there was little they could do and gave her not much time to live.

With no known family, 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 41-year-old abbess, who is also known as the Venerable Minh Tai, raised about $25,000 within days from people all over Vietnam through the temple's charity networks and social media.

With the money, she was able to take Hoai An to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Orchard Road for further treatment.

The funds were enough to cover Hoai An's first eight days of treatment, said Venerable Minh Tai.

"We have raised another $10,000 since then. Hopefully, we will be able to raise more money from donors in Vietnam, Singapore and around the world in the next few weeks."

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...nam-turns-one-month-old-at-singapore-hospital

 

[syed putra]

Vietnam got no hospital that can treat babies with this condition? They wete st war forvdecades and surely their doctors are more experience treating injuries, wounds and soldiers left for dead in battlefields.

 

[dredd]

A very touching and inspiring story amidst all the news of horrors and death today...

 

[LordElrond]

Can’t imagine when she grows up to learn her story... or even meet her biological parent!

 

[syed putra]

Can’t imagine when she grows up to learn her story... or even meet her biological parent!

The parents wanted her dead

 

[Semaj2357]

Can’t imagine when she grows up to learn her story... or even meet her biological parent!

that's a given, although she'll be a nun in all probability - following the footsteps of her caregiver and benefactor and won't matter much when she does

Vietnam got no hospital that can treat babies with this condition? They wete st war forvdecades and surely their doctors are more experience treating injuries, wounds and soldiers left for dead in battlefields.

perhaps, but the abbess is savvy enuff to bring her to sinkieland for greater publicity and attention (both strategic and medical) towards her plight

 

[Boliao]

that's a given, although she'll be a nun in all probability - following the footsteps of her caregiver and benefactor and won't matter much when she does

perhaps, but the abbess is savvy enuff to bring her to sinkieland for greater publicity and attention (both strategic and medical) towards her plight

Yes, because Singaporeans are known to be fools who will donate huge amount of money without verifying any claims.

 

[tun_dr_m]

Singapore Loves THE MOST to Pick Up and Keep such ABANDONED JUNK FT, already half dead and infected & ill health.

Can be Pee Sai's Future PM or President!

Keep the half dead baby in Istana pse. Mummified if dead also kept inside that EVIL HUB.

 

[red amoeba]

She has a critical condition and may not live past a few months. Hope she can have peace and love she leave this world for a better one.

 

[ToaPehGong]

The baby was sunburnt and had numerous insect bites. She had a festering wound in her badly swollen head and squirming maggots were found in her eyes and nose.

It pains to read this. No baby should deserve this