Hyderabad: Stray dogs and doctors of three government hospitals played havoc with the life of a six-month-old boy, Ritikesh, on Wednesday. The badly mauled baby battled for life for five hours, shuttling from one hospital to another, before he was even given first-aid. That was too late to save the little child.
Ritikesh was the second son of washerman Ranjit and Shubbu Bai. They are residents of MCH colony in Ziaguda.
On Wednesday around 11 am, the couple went to Keshav Swamy Nagar on the banks of Musi to wash clothes, leaving their eldest son Ritesh at home. After feeding Ritikesh, Shubbu Bai left her sleeping infant under a tree and went to wash clothes. Engrossed in work, the couple did not notice a pack of stray dogs snatch the child from under the tree. The four dogs gnawed him on the back and limbs. MCH workers, who were engaged in desilting work on the river bank, noticed the strays gnawing him. They scared away the dogs and found the boy profusely bleeding.
They searched the area and found Ritikesh’s parents at a distance. They narrated the sequence of events and asked them to rush the child to hospital. The parents were numb on seeing their bundle of joy writhing in pain and blood.
But, that was just the beginning of their five-hour ordeal. As Osmania Hospital was the nearest, the couple took their child there. And to their shock, the doctors even refused to take a look at the child and instead referred him to Niloufer Hospital, which is a specialised children’s hospital, Ritikesh’s uncle Bhim Lal said, narrating the events. ‘Mauled baby denied basic first-aid’
Hyderabad: Six-month-old Ritikesh who was mauled by a pack of dogs on Wednesday did not get even basic first-aid at the Niloufer Hospital where he was taken for treatment, according to the infant’s uncle. “We went to Niloufer Hospital where the doctors did not even provide basic firstaid. They referred us to Fever Hospital in Nallakunta,” the baby’s uncle Bhim Lal said.
Doctors at the Fever hospital too turned them away saying dog bite cases are treated at Red Cross Hospital at Narayanguda on the premises of Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM).
Doctors at the IPM gave the boy an anti-rabies vaccine but they did not admit him in the hospital. They referred him back to Niloufer Hospital. “By the time, we reached Niloufer the child breathed his last. We went around hospitals for nearly five hours,” Bhim Lal said.
Refusing to take the blame for the stray dog menace, MCH officials claimed they have taken up trapping strays and pigs in the locality recently. Kulsumpura police inspector D Chinna Hussain said a case of suspicious death was registered and investigation is on.
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Hyderabad: Stray dogs and doctors of three government hospitals played havoc with the life of a six-month-old boy, Ritikesh, on Wednesday. The badly mauled baby battled for life for five hours, shuttling from one hospital to another, before he was even given first-aid. That was too late to save the little child.
Ritikesh was the second son of washerman Ranjit and Shubbu Bai. They are residents of MCH colony in Ziaguda.
On Wednesday around 11 am, the couple went to Keshav Swamy Nagar on the banks of Musi to wash clothes, leaving their eldest son Ritesh at home. After feeding Ritikesh, Shubbu Bai left her sleeping infant under a tree and went to wash clothes. Engrossed in work, the couple did not notice a pack of stray dogs snatch the child from under the tree. The four dogs gnawed him on the back and limbs. MCH workers, who were engaged in desilting work on the river bank, noticed the strays gnawing him. They scared away the dogs and found the boy profusely bleeding.
They searched the area and found Ritikesh’s parents at a distance. They narrated the sequence of events and asked them to rush the child to hospital. The parents were numb on seeing their bundle of joy writhing in pain and blood.
But, that was just the beginning of their five-hour ordeal. As Osmania Hospital was the nearest, the couple took their child there. And to their shock, the doctors even refused to take a look at the child and instead referred him to Niloufer Hospital, which is a specialised children’s hospital, Ritikesh’s uncle Bhim Lal said, narrating the events. ‘Mauled baby denied basic first-aid’
Hyderabad: Six-month-old Ritikesh who was mauled by a pack of dogs on Wednesday did not get even basic first-aid at the Niloufer Hospital where he was taken for treatment, according to the infant’s uncle. “We went to Niloufer Hospital where the doctors did not even provide basic firstaid. They referred us to Fever Hospital in Nallakunta,” the baby’s uncle Bhim Lal said.
Doctors at the Fever hospital too turned them away saying dog bite cases are treated at Red Cross Hospital at Narayanguda on the premises of Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM).
Doctors at the IPM gave the boy an anti-rabies vaccine but they did not admit him in the hospital. They referred him back to Niloufer Hospital. “By the time, we reached Niloufer the child breathed his last. We went around hospitals for nearly five hours,” Bhim Lal said.
Refusing to take the blame for the stray dog menace, MCH officials claimed they have taken up trapping strays and pigs in the locality recently. Kulsumpura police inspector D Chinna Hussain said a case of suspicious death was registered and investigation is on.
