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Emirati boy on life support for 15 years

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March 20, 2012

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Fujairah, March 20: Hamad Al Kabi, a clinically dead Emirati boy, is the oldest patient in Dibba Fujairah Hospital, where has has been lying for the past 15 years on life support.


Hamad was taken to hospital after falling into a water basin at his house when he was aged just 11 months. Despite attempts by doctors to medically aid the baby, his condition dramatically deteriorated and he was declared clinically dead.


Now 100cm tall and 30kg in weight, Hamad has been on a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and life support since the accident. The only way to feed him is in the form of liquefied nutrition, which is administered through tubes inserted into his body, according to Dr Abdullah Salem Al Kabi, Director of Dibba Fujairah Hospital.


The boy’s heartbroken father, Mohammad, said: “Once admitted at Dibba Fujairah Hospital, duty doctors initially told me that the baby was dead, yet another doctor found out that the baby’s heart was still beating, but recommended the child taken to Al Mafraq Hospital, where Hamad was said to be suffering clinical death, a matter which had shocked all of us. “We had nothing to do but to yield to God’s will.”


Despite his condition, doctors at the hospital say Hamad still shows emotion — he smiles, weeps and feels sad. Hamad knows his father and mother best, and when they visit him he smiles. When they leave, he sheds tears.


The tragedy occurred when Hamad fell into a water basin in the courtyard of his family home. The toddler was found floating in the water by his mother, who had been talking with visitors.


Hamad was immediately rushed to hospital, where the medial team recommended that he be moved to Al Mafraq Hospital in Abu Dhabi due to the seriousness of the injury. Critically-ill Hamad was airlifted to Al Mafraq Hospital where he underwent tests and was declared clinically dead. He had suffered a cerebral palsy, physical disability, stiff muscles and quadriplegia due to the severe impact of striking the basin.


The boy’s parents have appealed to officials to pay for their child to be moved to Khalifa Hospital or a facility outside of the country for further treatment. Hamad’s father said he has given up hope on administrators at Khalifa Hospital, who tell him that no bed is available for his son.


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January 20,2020

Ahmedabad, Jan 20: Cops in Gandhinagar fell in a catch-22 situation when a state government employee approached them with a complaint that the 26-year-old woman class teacher of his 14-year-old son had gone missing taking his son in tow. The man, who works at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar said the woman had seduced his teenage son, who studies in class VIII and taken him away with her. The boy had gone missing from 4pm on Friday, and the classteacher was also missing.

A police official said the woman teacher had been too intimate with the allegedly missing boy for around a year, and the school authorities had recently rebuked them. “As their relationship was unaccepted, they left their homes on Friday,” he said. It was rare to find a case of a woman teacher eloping with her teenage student, the official added.

An FIR for elopement under Section 363 IPC has been registered with Kalol city police in Gandhinagar district. The complaint stated the teacher is a resident of Darbari chawl in Kalol town.

“When I reached home at around 7pm, I found my son missing. My wife told me he had left home at around 4pm. We searched for him in the neighbourhood and among relatives, but couldn’t trace him,” claims the teenage boy’s father in the FIR. “I went to the teacher’s house but they were not there,” the man stated.

Inspector K K Desai of Kalol city police said the missing duo could not be traced as they were not carrying cellphones.

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Agencies
February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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July 31,2020

Amaravati, Jul 31: Nine people have died after allegedly consuming sanitiser in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh today, the police said.

Prakasam district Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal said the people had been consuming sanitiser for the past few days, mixing it with water and soft drinks.

"We are also investigating whether they laced the sanitiser with any other toxic substances," the official said.

"Their family members say these people have been consuming sanitiser for the past ten days. We are sending the sanitiser stocks, being sold in the area, for examination," he added.

Kurichedu in Prakasam district has been under lockdown due to rise in coronavirus cases and hence, liquor shops have also been shut since the past few days.

Habitual drinkers were said to be consuming sanitisers that have alcohol content, apart from illicitly distilled arrack.

The police said two beggars near a temple were the first to fall victim on Thursday night. While one of them was found dead at the spot, another died in the government hospital in Darsi town, they said.

A third person was also taken to the Darsi hospital late on Thursday night after he fell unconscious but he was declared brought dead. Six others who fell ill after allegedly consuming sanitiser, died this morning.

Others who fell ill after consuming sanitiser are undergoing treatment at their residences in the village, the police added.

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