City doctors have given a new lease of life to a girl who was born without heartbeats and had birth-asphyxia, a type of brain damage, and had been having seizures. Now two months old, the child was born full-term via emergency Caesarean section, weighing about 3.5 kg, and referred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Wockhardt hospital, Mira Road.

"When she was brought in, we were informed that the baby did not have heartbeats or respiration at birth. The paediatrician who attended the delivery did a wonderful job by timely resuscitating the baby and the spontaneous breaths were established at approximately 25 minutes of birth," said Dr Virender Verma, the neonatologist under whose supervision the child was treated.