Delhi gang-rape survivor Amanat's internal bleeding reduces, but still critical: doctors
New Delhi: 23-year-old
Amanat's (NOT her real name) health, who was gang-raped in a moving bus
in Delhi on December 16, still continues to be critical even though her
internal bleeding has reduced significantly, doctors attending to her
said today. The internal bleeding is due to sepsis, a severe blood
infection that can lead to organ failure.
Doctors said her liver
functions and lab profile are by and large fine, though she is running a
fever of 102 degrees to 103 degrees.
Doctors at the Safdarjung
Hospital in New Delhi say that they are replenishing Amanat with
platelet-rich plasma which has resulted in her platelet count to go up
to 81,000 as compared to 70,000 yesterday. "The girl's platelet count
and total lycolyte count have improved when compared to yesterday. And
this improvement is after pumping in of blood, platelets and plasma. The
real improvement would be when her body starts producing all these," Dr
Sunil Jain, general surgeon of the hospital, said.
On Monday, Amanat had shown some tendency for internal bleeding but her
platelet count had increased to 70,000 from Sunday's 19,000. A normal
platelet count in a healthy individual is between 150,000 and 450,000
per micro-litre of blood.
Dr P K Verma, ICU incharge, said the
level of bilirubin, the yellow breakdown product of normal heme
catabolism, which stood at 7.3 today is a "serious cause of concern".
However, she is conscious, alert and communicating. The ventilator
support assistance has also been reduced, doctors said. The
23-year-old's haemoglobin count is also up today.
Amanat is
communicating through gestures and is responding to antibiotics. She was
subjected to psychiatric counselling this morning along with her
parents. Dr Rastogi of the Psychology Department said despite her
fragile body condition, the girl is "stable, conscious and meaningfully
communicative"
"She is very positive about her future. She has got the fighting spirit. She is coping well," he said.
Doctors added that she will need emotional strength and that her parents are also better.
Amanat
is getting full calorific requirement as of today; till yesterday her
body could not absorb the entire amount of nutrition she needs, doctors
said.
The 23-year-old was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on
December 16 in a moving bus for close to an hour and then thrown out.
Six persons have been arrested in connection with the incident.
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