CUTTACK: Doctors of a private hospital here have been struggling for the last fortnight to save the life of a six-year-old boy who came in contact with a live high-tension electric wire. With over 60 percent burn injuries, the doctors are making no stone unturned to save the life of Debasish Bhol who is the only son of a cardiac patient Sushovita Bhol.

The brave-hearted mother has even endured the ache when the doctors went for amputation of the right hand of her minor son through elbow.

She even did not hesitate when the doctors removed one after the other; nine fingers of his son's limbs with the unyielding hope that the life of her son would be saved.

Help sought

But it has been a horrendous experience for the father Lalitendu Kumar Bhol, a library teacher of an un-aided college to meet the treatment expenses for the past 15 days. "I have already spent over Rs. 1.5 lakh in the hospital only to see that some body parts of my son being permanently removed without any sign of improvement in his condition," says Lalitendu, a native of Nayagarh district.

"Arranging the money from my relatives and friends, I am running short of contacts now and I don't think I am going to sustain with it any further," he says with a choked voice urging the benevolent people and philanthropic organisations to bail him out of this precarious situation.

Although, he made an appeal to the State Government last week, no response has come from any quarters yet. "I only received a telephone call from a person who claimed himself to be an official of state women and child development department assuring me that the government is likely to consider my appeal," he said.

Hospital sources, however, claimed that the condition of the boy is normal if not improving.

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