Doctors at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital said the condition of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim remains critical and she is still on ventilator support.
However, doctors have noted improvement in her vital parameters.
Doctors had yesterday said that the girl is psychologically “stable, conscious and meaningfully communicative”.
The victim was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on December 16 in a moving bus and thrown out. Six persons have been arrested in connection with the incident.
“The girl’s platelet count and total lycolyte count have improved when compared to Monday. And this improvement is after pumping in of blood, platelets and plasma. The real improvement would be when her body starts producing all these,” Dr Sunil Jain, general surgeon of the hospital, had said yesterday.
He said the girl’s liver functions and lab profile are by and large fine, though she is running a fever of 102 degrees to 103 degrees.
Dr PK Verma, ICU in-charge, said the girl was talking to her relatives.
He also said the level of internal bleeding has been controlled to a considerable extent while the increase in the level of bilirubin, the yellow breakdown product of normal heme catabolism, which stood at 7.3 on Tuesday is a “serious cause of concern”.
Sepsis, a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure, is the cause for internal bleeding, but doctors say the examination of blood cultures have established that they are on the “right track”.
–PTI