A newborn girl is in a critical condition today after her mother gave birth in a hospital toilet and dumped the baby in a rubbish bin.
Dawa Lama, 23, arrived at a hospital on Tuesday and started the pre-birth check-in process, before dumping her newborn in a toilet near the emergency room entrance.
The baby was found after staff noticed blood inside a bathroom at Elmhurst Hospital Centre in Queens, New York, and the mother had left the hospital, police said.