The girl is fighting for life after being rescued from an earthen jar buried in the state of Uttar Pradesh on October 10.

Newborn baby rescued in Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, northern India with blood infection and low platelets dangerously low, pediatrician Ravi Khanna said on 15/10.

"She has a chance to live but we are only sure after 5-7 days," he said.

A girl was accidentally discovered by a villager on 10/10 when digging a grave to bury his dead daughter. Hindus often cremate the dead but children are buried.

"When they dug the tomb for the child at a depth of nearly a meter, the shovel struck a terracotta jar that broke it and they heard children crying. Pulling the vase out, they found the baby lying in it. ", said Abhinandan Singh, police chief Bareilly.

The girl was then taken to the local hospital's intensive care unit for newborns. "I think she's about a week old," says chief pediatrician Saurabh Anjan. "She was born premature, can be born at about 30 weeks and weighs only 1.1 kg."

Dr Anjan also said the girl had hypothermia and hypoglycemia. "She was so small and weak, we immediately gave oxygen to the patient and started hypothermia treatment," Anjan said.

Dr. Khanna said that the girl was buried in the ground for 3-4 days. "She survives on brown fat. Babies have fat on their stomachs, thighs and cheeks, sometimes they can survive on this in an emergency. When this fat is depleted, she shrinks. "he said.

Meanwhile, the chief of pediatrics, Anjan, believes that she has only been buried alive for two to three hours and may only survive another 1-2 hours if she is not rescued. He said that there might be some oxygen in the soil and the vase was made of clay not too thick so the air could still pass through, preventing the girl from suffocating.

Police have opened a criminal investigation and are looking for parents of newborn babies. Singh suspects that these people intentionally bury their children because after the incident was announced, no one came to accept the child.

Local politician Rajesh Kumar Mishra, of the ruling BJP party, adopted the girl and when she got better, he and his wife would take me home.

"Her survival was a miracle, I believe God saved my life and sent her to me," he said. "She is fighting between life and death. Once she recovers, I will take her home and raise as a girl."

Mishra named the girl Sita, after a Hindu goddess, and went to the hospital to check the situation a few times a day.

Abandoning and murdering girls in India is not uncommon due to the male-female viewpoint. People believe that boys will follow the family line and take care of their parents when they are old, while girls make expensive families of dowry and after marriage no longer live in the house. This has made India one of the countries with the highest sex ratio in the world.

"I don't know what caused her biological parents to abandon her and bury her alive, all I can say is that they did the wrong thing," Mr. Mishra said. "I pray for her to be healthy and live for a long time. I believe the whole world is praying for her life."