In what can be termed as nothing short of a miracle, an eight-month child in Chennai, fell from the fifth floor of a six-storey building in Chennai and managed to survive the fall with a fracture and a few bruises. The baby, whose name is Jinisha, had moved into an apartment on Mint street recently, with her parents Maypal and Neelam from Visakhapatnam.
According to DT Next, her father who is a businessman was not in the city on the fateful day and her mother was busy in the kitchen. The child reportedly crawled onto the balcony of the house to look at the busy street below, only to fall through a small opening in the grill. The incident happened at around 10.30 am and the child was 50 feet from the ground when she slipped out of the balcony.
But luckily for her, she fell directly on to a relatively soft seat of bike parked below the flat, thus cushioning the impact of what could otherwise have been fatal. According to ToI, an auto rickshaw driver who was in the vicinity spotted the child and managed to revive her. He then located the parents after 20 minutes of searching, and the child was rushed to a private hospital.
A senior paediatric intensivist, Dr. Rajeshwari Nataraj, told ToI that the child had swelling in her leg because the femur bone was fractured. She is in a cast to immobilise her leg and has been shifted to a regular room now.
Earlier, in October, a two-old-old had slipped from her mother's hands and fell to her death from the third floor. The child was being fed by the mother when she fell and in this case, the balcony had no grills and neither was there anything to cushion her fall. The child was declared 'brought dead' at the Stanely government hospital.