Non availability of doctor and denial of timely treatment to the victim resulted in death
Engeeniering student who met with road accident died a day after health minister Kamineni Srinivas visited Chitoor district
Tirupati: Exactly a day after the health minister, Dr Kamineni Srinivas, made a grand announcement of turning Chittoor district into a medical hub during his visit, an engineering student who met with a road accident near P. Kothakota in Puthalapattu mandal of Chittoor district on Sunday, succumbed to injuries owing to the lack of facilities at the local primary health centre.
According to Puthalapattu police, B. Sarath Kumar, a third year student, met with an accident while trying to cross the road, near his college on the Nayudupeta-Chittoor highway. Though he was immediately rushed to a primary health centre at P. Kothakota, where there were no facilities that could save his life.
With no doctor also available at the health centre to treat the victim and timely treatment was denied to the boy, who met with the accident. The parents and relatives of the boy tried to shift him to Chittoor but before that the boy succumbed to injuries.
Enraged with the delay in treatment and lack of facilities which claimed the life of their boy, parents and relatives staged a protest at the hospital.Puthalapattu police who learnt about the development reached the spot and pacified the parents by promising that they would take up the issue to the notice of the district medical and health officer.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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