This Toddler Wouldn't Let Doctors Put Plaster On Her Fractured Legs, So They Plastered Her Doll's Legs & Convinced Her

Remember how as a kid you and your doll were inseparable? You would have lunch with her, sleep with her, bathe with her and do everything with her.

Likewise for this 11-month-old girl parting with her favourite doll was not going to happen. She's so attached to her doll that in order to plaster her legs doctors also had to plaster her doll Pari's plastic legs. It's an ingenious way to convince a child truth be told.

According to Amar Ujala, Zikra fractured her leg after falling down from her bed on August 17. But when her family rushed her to the hospital, the toddler refused to get treated.

Amar Ujala

The doctors suggested putting Zikra on gallows traction, a method which is used to treat a fractured shaft of the thigh bone in children younger than two years. But Zikra refused to do that!

Upon forcing, her parents came up with a solution and decided to bring Zikra¡¯s doll, Pari, to the hospital, reports Indian Express.

"Even at home, she is always moving from one place to another and it's impossible to make her sit down for five minutes. On the first day at the hospital, she wasn't ready to lie down on the bed. She kept moving and doctors asked us to keep her legs straight for proper alignment. Then I asked my husband to get her favourite doll to the hospital. We just thought of putting Pari in the same position as Zikra - and it worked," said her mother, Fareen, to Indian Express.

Indian Express

"She was happy as soon as she saw the doll," she added.

Doctors at the hospital first had to treat Pari and then Zikra. They plastered the doll¡¯s legs after which Zikra agreed to receive treatment. The two now lie together on the bed and Zikra is now famous in the hospital as the ¡®Gudiya Wali Bachi (the girl with the doll)¡¯, and is expected to make a full recovery in another week.