A baby, barely a few days old when he was admitted to a government hospital in Andhra Pradesh with respiratory problems, has died after rats chewed off the fingers on his right hand and gnawed into his legs and left eye. The newborn's father, Chavali Nagaraju Babu, today claimed that authorities at the Government General Hospital in Guntur town had added insult to injury, saying he needn't fret as he had "another son". The baby's mother, Lakshmi, had given birth to the couple's second son on August 17 in a government hospital in Vijayawada before the infant was shifted to the paediatric ward in the Guntur hospital to be treated of lung problem.
"Early on Sunday morning my son started crying. As we are not allowed to stand next to the incubator, I urged the nurses to check on him. By the time they did, rats had eaten away the fingers of his right hand and also the eye," Lakshmi said. Doctors later shifted the baby to the ICU. The infant was declared dead on Tuesday afternoon. "This morning, the hospital superintendent told me I need not worry as I have another son," a sobbing Nagaraju Babu said.
Andhra health minister, Kamineni Srinivas has asked the hospital to submit a detailed report. Meanwhile, a three-member committee has been set up to probe the horrific death of the infant.
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