Medical staff were last night working around the clock to save the life of a baby  girl who was found in a garbage heap in Linden and taken to the Linden Hospital Complex.

A young man, Rawl Samuels of Wismar said that he was in the company of his uncle clearing a plot of land at the back of Wis-roc Housing Scheme when he stumbled upon the newborn baby in a nearby garbage heap. Samuels told Stabroek News that he went to urinate and felt the urge to look around, “when I look around I saw this bag, this little baby in a open mouth black bag,” he said.

He immediately alerted his uncle, picked up his bicycle and rushed the infant to the Linden Hospital Complex.  He said that he was very scared and it was not until he reached the hospital that he noticed that the infant was bleeding from the nose.

At the time of the discovery the baby was wrapped in a clean blanket.

Hospital sources said that when the man arrived with the infant she was breathing irregularly but the quick response resulted in her stabilization. She is said to be a premature baby and was wearing a clean navel clamp.  She was incubated up to press time and was said to be stable.

The medical staff is on the lookout for any female that may seek medical attention bearing signs of a recent delivery. The matter was reported to the Linden police.