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Japanese baby gets birth certificate

JAIPUR: Giving a ray of hope to Manji, the Japanese baby born to an Indian surrogate mother, authorities have issued a birth certificate to her enhancing the prospects of the 16-day-old’s return to her homeland.

The certificate, with Manji’s father Dr. Ikufumi Yamada’s name on it, will hasten the process of securing a temporary passport for the baby from the Japanese embassy, facilitating her trip back to Japan, said Sanjay Arya, Director of Arya Hospital, where the baby is admitted.

The baby got caught in a legal wrangle after she was delivered by her surrogate mother in Anand, Gujarat, on July 25. Her father Dr. Yamada got separated with his wife Yuki before the baby’s birth and Yuki subsequently disowned the child.

As Indian law does not allow her father – now single – to adopt her, Dr. Yamada could not take the child out of the country though he wanted to.

The child’s grandmother Emiko Yamada is in the hospital to look after the baby. Manji was shifted to the Jaipur hospital after the Ahmedabad serial blasts with the help of Kamal Vijaywargiya, a city jeweller who is a friend of Dr. Yamada.

The wife of Kamal Vijaywargiya, a friend of Dr. Yamada, who also gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, has come forward to breastfeed Manji. — PTI

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