meerut she was hit in the head with a sharp object to an extent that she got a fracture in her skull the injuries are way too much for a child who is just one year old but despite the injury and the abrasions on her body the infant survived hunger thirst rain and summer heat in a farm not many infants would have survived the extreme conditions and it looks like that she continued to remain unconscious in the field for two days or so said dr ajay garg resident medical officer astha multi speciality hospital named gudiya by the hospital staff and police the toddler is being taken care of by the nurses and police officialsrekha nagar a up police constable has been given the duty to take care of the child i am still shocked that somebody can hit a oneyearold baby so badly it was her sheer luck that the people who came to a nearby shrine heard her cried and alerted us she has finally started drinking milk and is responding well said nagar who comes in at 1030am every day and stays with gudiya till 9pmfour days ago the toddler and an unidentified woman believed to be her mother were found in a farm in barauts dhodra village while the womans body had already decomposed the baby was still alive despite being in the open for four days out of which it even rained for two daysit is a miracle that she is alive i take care of her medicines and food and even take her out for a walk she plays with me too but she still has to recover properly she cries very often because she is unable to find a known face around her and doesnt like it when i take her to the doctor for her medicines said nagarthe police has meanwhile circulated the picture of the girl on social media so that she can be identified and her family be traced we have put in our best efforts to find the family of the toddler and we hope to find it soon she was found after some villagers heard her crying near a shrine and that is when the body of her mother was found we are also checking missing reports from bordering districts to trace her family said rakesh kumar singh station house officer baraut police station