Cooch Behar, Sept. 7: The one-year-old girl living with a fish hook lodged in her gullet after she had accidentally swallowed it in June will be taken to Calcutta tomorrow by an NGO for its removal.

The doctors in three north Bengal hospitals, the medical college, had asked Krishna Das to admit his daughter to a Calcutta hospital to get the hook surgically removed.

According to Utpal Roy, the secretary of the Calcutta-based Diganta, his organisation wanted to give Mitali, the baby in danger, and her family something to cheer about during the coming festive season.

“As soon as we came across the reports on the plight of the family in newspapers, we decided to do something for the girl,” said Roy.

He added that if the NGO had come to know about the predicament being faced by the child much earlier, it would have acted then.

Paresh Das, a relative of Krishna, said: “We are grateful to the organisation for standing by us. I will accompany Krishna, Mitali and her mother when they board the train to Calcutta tomorrow. Mitali will be operated upon at SSKM Hospital.”

Besides the treatment cost, Diganta will bear the expenses for boarding and lodging of the family. When Krishna expressed his inability to pay for the train tickets, he was given Rs 500 by a local NGO, All-India Centre for Urban and Rural Development.

Roy said the girl would be admitted to the paediatric department of SSKM Hospital as soon as the family arrived in Calcutta on Tuesday.

Mitali, whose father is a day wage labourer, swallowed the fish hook at their home in Gossainmari near Dinhata.