Sterilised tsunami mother has baby hope

An Indian woman who lost her four children in last year’s tsunami has given birth to a baby girl after doctors reversed her sterilisation.

This is the first known success in India’s massive program to surgically reverse the sterilisation of hundreds of mothers who lost their children in the December 26 tsunami, so they may again have children, said Sunil Paliwal, top administrator in southern Kanyakumari district.

Agnes Raj, 26, a mother of a boy and three girls in Kottilpadu village near the southern tip of India’s mainland, was left childless after the tsunami claimed all four

Raj gave birth on Sunday and named her daughter Prateeksha – “Hope” in the local Malayalam language.