A three-year-old girl, who fell into a borewell in Rajasthan’s Kotputli-Behror district 10 days ago, died shortly after she was rescued on Wednesday.
Chetna Chaudhary, who was rescued after five failed attempts, was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for medical attention. Hospital authorities said during examination, they found her dead, reported NDTV.
“She was brought in and immediately moved to the emergency room, where a special bed was set up for examination,” the hospital’s medical officer Chetanya Rawat said. “After the doctors performed a procedure, they confirmed the child was no longer alive.”
The child had fallen into the 45-metre-deep borewell on Dec 23 while playing in her father’s agriculture farm.
About 10 minutes later, her family members heard her crying and found her stuck in the borewell.
The national and state Disaster Relief Forces reached immediately with a medical team and efforts were made to rescue her.
Oxygen was supplied to the girl through a pipe and, after initial efforts to pull her up failed, the rescue teams started digging. But the tunnel they dug turned out to be in the wrong direction.
Later, neither food nor oxygen could be provided to her, and her condition became critical.
District Collector Kalpana Agarwal explained that the borewell was tilted after a certain depth, which led to mistakes. Finally, experts from Delhi and Jaipur were called in to assist the rescue teams.
