SKIN & BONES: Little Qiqing is seriously malnourished and dehydrated
AN EIGHT-month-old boy was reduced to skin and bones after his mother disappeared, leaving him to starve alone for eight days at their home in China's rural Hainan province.
Little Qiqing was crying when his father, Mr Liang, a construction worker, returned home from work in another part of China, eight days after the mother's disappearance, reported China News Service.
Little Qiqing was running a temperature, vomited and had diarrhoea. He was so badly malnourished that his buttock cheeks were sagging, with hardly a hint of flesh. He is recovering at Qiongshan People's Hospital. His doctor Lin Jian said the boy is seriously malnourished and dehydrated.
Said a depressed Mr Liang: "I can never forget how he looked that day. He was lying in a heap of excrement and looked as if his skin was stuck to his bones, with no flesh between."
Mr Liang and his wife often quarrelled.
The boy fell ill on June 23 and she borrowed 200 yuan (S$40) from her sister-in-law to send him to hospital.
But after taking the money, she disappeared with her three-year-old daughter, leaving Qiqing alone at home.
Mr Liang got Qiqing discharged from hospital as he could not afford the cost.
He had borrowed more than 3,000 yuan to cover the treatment, he said. In south-west China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a woman has disappeared, leaving her newborn girl at the roadside, China News Service reported.
The girl was discovered yesterday hours after the birth by passengers beside a wall in Nanning, Guangxi's capital, and has been sent to a local hospital.
She was found naked and blood-smeared with the umbilical cord still uncut, according to witnesses.
This article was first published in The New Paper
AsiaOne
24 Jul 2010
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