The newborn rescued from a dumpster in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area yesterday has found a place she can call home.

She has been adopted by a family who has chosen to remain unnamed in the media, Brig Gen AKM Nasiruddin, director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, told The Daily Star today.

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Abandoned newborn finds a lifeline

As per court order, she will be taken to Square Hospitals in Dhaka where she will go through a thorough medical checkup and remain hospitalised there until a full recovery, he said.

A cleaner named Fatema was cleaning in Mohammadpur area at dawn when she heard the crying of a baby. She rushed to the spot and saw a newborn girl with umbilical cord still attached.

When police came to rescue the newborn, Fatema went to the DMCH with the baby.