Six-year-old girl rescued from 400-feet borewell dies


Write Comment     |     E-Mail To a Friend     |     Facebook     |     Twitter     |     Print

 

Chennai, Sep 28, 2013(PTI): A six-year-old girl, who was today rescued from a 400-feet borewell in a village in Tiruvannamalai district after a nine-hour battle, died in hospital.

 

Her condition was very critical when she was brought to the hospital and she died due to hypothermia (subnormal body temperature) and lack of oxygen supply, Dean-in-charge of Vellore Government Medical College and Hospital, Dr Sivakumar said.

 

"The child’s body could not withstand the trauma," he said. The child, Devi, accidentally fell into the 400-feet borewell in Pulavanpadi village when she came to the site at 7.45 AM along with her mother, a farm labourer.

 

About 30 FRSD personnel, with the aid of backhoe loaders dug a well like opening close to the borewell to take out the child, who was stuck at 20 feet.

 

The unconscious child was rescued with a specially procured ’arm like device’ at 6.15 PM and rushed to Vellore hospital in an ambulance, accompanied by a team of doctors.

 

An expert team, including a paediatrician, anesthetist and a physician tried in vain to save the child.

 

"We did our very best and followed the protocol guidelines for such situations and tried to save the child. It is very unfortunate that she could not be saved," Dr Sivakumar said.

 

Meanwhile, villagers held a protest alleging that the child was a victim of criminal negligence of the farm owner, who had reportedly left the borewell uncovered and demanded stringent punishment for him. District police did not disclose information related to action against the borewell owner.

 

 

Write your Comments on this Article
Your Name
Native Place / Place of Residence
Your E-mail
Your Comment   You have characters left.
Security Validation
Enter the characters in the image above
    
Disclaimer: Kindly do not post any abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful material or SPAM. BelleVision.com reserves the right to block/ remove without notice any content received from users.
GTI MarigoldGTI Marigold
Anil Studio
Badminton Sports AcademyBadminton Sports Academy

Now open at Al Qusais

Veez Konkani IllustratedVEEZ Konkani

Weekly e-Magazine

New State Bank of India, Customer Service Point
Cool House ConstructionCool House Construction
Uzvaad FortnightlyUzvaad Fortnightly

Call : 91 9482810148

Your ad Here
Power Care
Ryan Intl Mangaluru
Ryan International
pearl printing
https://samuelsequeira.substack.com/publish
Omintec
Kittall.ComKittall.Com

Konkani Literature World

Konkanipoetry.com
Bluechem