ANANTAPUR: Illiterate parents' faith on treatment of quacks and lack of information on modern medicine has cost a 10-year-old boy his left arm.

Quack's treatment for elbow dislocation on Sainath of Gownivaripalli in Gorantla mandal resulted in the formation of gangrene in his arm and the resultant infection forced the doctors to amputate his arm.

Last of the four children of Gangappa and Nagalaxmi, Sainath got his elbow dislocated while playing with his friends some time back.

As is the practice in a majority of rural areas, his parents rushed him to a quack in nearby Seenappapalli village where the seasoned quack applied some paste on the dislocated arm and wrapped it up with a bandage. But, the unscientific treatment of the quack stopped blood circulation in s arm.

Neighbours of the family suspecting something wrong with the treatment advised the boy's parents to take him to a hospital.

The parents of Sainath brought him to the General Hospital here with a hope that their son's arm would be set right. But, the orthopaedic specialists at the hospital told the parents that the boy's arm was almost dead clinically and it had to be removed to prevent further spread of the infection.

Shocked with the doctors' analysis, the parents finally agreed for removal of Sainath's infected arm.

"We wouldn't have approached the quack, had we known that his treatment would cost our son's arm," Gangappa said innocently. The doctors will operate upon the boy on Friday.

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