*Kol woman with cerebral palsy may be first to adopt a baby* · The Times of India (Mumbai edition)
· 13 Jun 2018 · Priyanka.Dasgupta @timesgroup.com Jeeja and husband with their bundle of joy Kolkata: Ballygunge resident Jeeja Ghosh, 48, has become the first person born with cerebral palsy in Kolkata — and possibly India — to become a parent through adoption. Motherhood was a dream that Ghosh, born with the condition, nursed since she got married in 2013. But little did she know the hurdles she would have to face before being considered fit to adopt a five-month-old girl. Last Thursday, after an epic struggle, Ghosh welcomed home a girl child — lovingly called Bhujungu and Sonai at home — to her ninth-floor flat at the Saptaparni complex on Ballygunge Circular Road. Ghosh, a Presidency College graduate and Delhi University postgraduate, and her husband, Bappaditya Nag, a law officer with Syndicate Bank, applied for adoption in 2016. Madhusmita Nayak, programme mana- ger for the specialised adoption agency project at Keonjhar’s Self-Realisation Mission (SRM), from where the child was adopted, said the baby was born in January 2018 and was abandoned at a Keonjhar hospital. “We don’t know about her biological parents,” Nayak added. It was love at first sight for the couple when they saw the yet-unnamed child at SRM. But it needed multiple trips to Keonjhar to convince the adoption committee that Ghosh could be a responsible care-giver. “We submitted a fit certificate but the committee told us this certificate was not acceptable because it had to be issued by a medical practitioner,” Nag said. It was an uphill struggle from there, but the couple finally succeeded. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
