Kottayam: The three-member medical board monitoring the treatment of the seven-year-old boy at the Kolenchery Medical College Hospital on Saturday said that his ventilator support would continue.
They rejected the assessment of the hospital authorities that the child is braindead.
Dr Tinu Ravi Abraham of the department of neurosurgery of Kottayam Medical College Hospital, who heads the board, said that the treatment protocol would remain the same.
He said the condition of the child is not conducive to transferring him to another hospital.
The brain is in a dormant state, and other organs function at a slow pace. The child, who sustained severe injuries in his skull forcing the brain coming out and his lungs damaged, remains to be in an extremely critical condition. He was on the ventilator since Thursday.
He was admitted at 3.30 am to the Chazhikattu Hospital, Thodupuzha, and soon shifted here after finding his injuries to be serious.
Meanwhile, the police on Saturday took the accused Arun Anand, a native of Thiruvananthapuram, to their house in Thodupuzha for collecting evidence amidst an angry crowd shouting at the accused. The police presented him before the Thodupuzha First Class Magistrate Court on Saturday evening which remanded him in judicial custody for two weeks.
Thodupuzha DySP K.P. Jose who is investigating the case said the injuries in the body of the child were from the beating Wednesday night. He ruled out any noticeable injuries previously.
"All the injuries including the contusions at various parts of the body are recent and have no previous history," the DySP told DC. "This is why the school authorities or others didn't notice it previously." He said that the mother of the child Anjana had admitted severely beating him up, but not previously. She is now with the child at the hospital. After the death of her husband Biju, the mother of two went with Anand to Thiruvananthapuram with the children.
The younger brother is now at the care of his maternal grandmother, who had lodged a missing complaint with the police that produced them in a court.
She was living with the accused at a rented house in Thodupuzha since November.
Anand and her husband were cousins. After Biju's death, he took over the responsibility of his workshop, said the police.
