SRINAGAR: In yet another incident of stray dog menace in Kashmir, ten-year-old, Ahmad Bin Javaid, lost his battle for life late Thursday afternoon after remaining in ICU for more than ten days.
On May 28, Ahmad, son of Javaid Ahmad Rather of Baran Pathar Batmaloo was chased by a pack of stray dogs while playing with his friends. Ahmad, while trying to evade the dogs fell into a drain and sustained severe injuries.
He was shifted to the children’s hospital in Bemina where he remained on the ventilator for almost two weeks.
However, Ahmad passed away on late Thursday afternoon.
The Medical Superintendent of Children’s Hospital Srinagar confirmed the death of the minor boy and said that it was a case of fatal drowning with respiratory failure with shock.
“He was admitted on 28-05-2023 in PICU where he was on ventilator support with continuous monitoring and today evening, he died,” he said.
Earlier, Dr. Muhammad Salim Khan, Professor & HOD Community Medicine GMC Srinagar, in a tweet had said that “the 7-year-old child was chased by a pack of dogs in Batmaloo Srinagar, after which he had fallen in a drain and was brain dead with no chances of survival.”
Ahmad was studying in Dubai Grand International School in Srinagar’s HMT area, who confirmed that the deceased boy was a student of Class 6th and expressed their solidarity with the bereaved family.
“The boy was admitted to the hospital some days back and today he has died. We are in shock to hear the news of his death, our thoughts are with the family and we pray for his departed soul,” Parvez Ahmad, Principal of the school, said—(KNO)
