THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2024
Team Herald
A five-year-old girl named Kamini lost her life due to a presumed 'heart attack' while engrossed in watching cartoons on a mobile phone, in Hathaikheda of Hasanpur Kotwali, Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh.
The unfortunate event occurred on Sunday when Kamini, lying on the bed beside her mother, suddenly dropped the phone from her hands and fell unconscious.
Swiftly responding to the emergency, Kamini was rushed to a nearby private hospital, where she was, tragically, declared "brought dead." The cause of her sudden demise is currently under investigation, with Hasanpur community health centre in-charge Dhruvendra Kumar suggesting a potential heart attack as the cause.
Amroha Chief Medical Officer Satyapal Singh disclosed, "We appealed to the family to hand over the body for post-mortem, but they did not agree. It is a matter of investigation whether she died of a heart attack or some other disease."
Disturbingly, this incident is not an isolated one in the region, as over a dozen similar cases have been reported in the past two months in Amroha and Bijnor districts. One such case involved 16-year-old Prince Kumar, who collapsed while playing cricket in Hasanpur area on December 31, 2023, meeting the same tragic fate as Kamini.
Another victim, 12-year-old Shipra from Bijnor, collapsed and died inside a classroom on December 9, 2023. Senior physician Rahul Bishnoi noted, "Heart attacks might be common due to cold weather. Oxygen levels and blood pressure usually drop, increasing the risk of blood clots."
