Eight-year-old boy falls into septic tank at Peddapalli govt hospital, dies

While playing on the hospital premises, Williams fell into an septic tank, which was not covered

Peddapalli: An eight year-old boy fell in an uncovered septic tank in the district headquarters government hospital on Tuesday morning.

Following the mother raising an alarm,

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the hospital staff rushed to the spot and retrieved the boy from the septic tank and provided treatment. As his health condition turned serious, he was shifted to a private hospital in Karimnagar wherein he was undergoing treatment.

According to hospital staff, natives of Sudanapalli, Korivi mandal of Mahaboobbad district, Srinivas and Ramulamma migrated to Peddapalli a few days ago in the search of employment and working as construction labourers. The couple had a son, John Williams.

Srinivas on Monday was admitted in Peddapalli government hospital following an a bout of diarrhoea.

On Tuesday morning, Ramulamma had taken the boy behind the hospital when he wanted to attend to nature’s call. She left him there for a brief while and when she returned, he was missing..

After searching the premises, she alerted the hospital staff, who found the boy in a septic tank and pulled him out from the tank. The boy was provided preliminary treatment in hospital.

As his health condition turned serious, hospital authorities shifted him to a private hospital in Karimnagar by getting permission from the collector.

Hospital superintendent, Dr Ramakanth said that hospital staff had removed the covers of septic tanks to clean them since there was a central team’s visit to the hospital on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, the boy had fallen in septic tank accidentally, he said.

Enraged over the incident, BJP activists staged a rasta roko on Rajiv Rahadari in Peddapalli town demanding action against the hospital staff responsible for the incident. They also demanded the suspension of the hospital superintendent.