Abandoned baby adopted by Swedish nurse

JAIPUR: Kajri, an eight-month-old baby girl, who was abandoned and left to die on a railway track, has finally found a mother, who has travelled all the way from

Sweden

to adopt her.

The cheerful girl today is a very different picture from the infant that was found by a lineman on the railway tracks near Barmer in a carton last year. The railway police got the infant admitted to a hospital, where it was confirmed that the baby was hardly a day-old and was premature. The girl child was sent to Nav Jeevan Sansthan in

Jodhpur

where she was named Kajri and has now been adopted by a

Swedish nurse

Elin Kristin Eriksson, who saw the girl on the Sansthan’s portal for adoption.

After waiting and completing the adoption formalities the single mother is ready to take her daughter back home. This is the first time that a special child has been adopted by a foreign national from Nav Jeevan Sansthan which is home for 50 children.

Rajendra Parihaar who is heading Nav Jeevan Sansthan told TOI, “Ministry of Women and Child Development has a statutory body Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), which looks into the adoption procedure and policy and Ericksson had applied for adoption in Sweden following which her request was sent to CARA. From application to now the process takes more than 6 months and she will be taking Kajri with her on July 27.”

Kajri is special child and elaborating on her physical needs Parihar added, “The girl is much better now but when we got her she weighed only 1.5 kg and because of the way she was thrown on the railway tracks, she was in very poor health but with correct nourishment and care she will be completely healthy soon.”

The 44-year old Eriksson is a single mother and Parihar further added, “She is a nurse who works in a children’s hospital in Sweden and she felt the need to adopt a child because of her love for them. She was extremely happy and emotional to meet and adopt Kajri formally. We have got Kajri’s birth certificate ready with Elin’s name as her mother on it.”