"When I came to Mumbai, my two-month-old daughter was battling for life. Had it not been for the doctors and staff at Wadia [hospital], she would not have been alive," said an emotional Sandeep Shinde, father of Shivanya, outside the hospital ward. Shivanya, who has completely recovered from a recent surgery, will now be going back to her hometown in Sangli with her parents.

mid-day on August 27 had reported about the ordeal that Sandeep and his wife had been through. The Shinde family had lost everything, including their rented house, in the flash floods that submerged Haripur village in Sangli district, where they had been living for the last few years. They were saved by the NDRF team and later shifted to a rescue centre. Soon after, Shivanya was diagnosed with a birth defect called Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection—her pulmonary vein was on the right side, instead of the left.