A lady from India, Lakshmi Babu, was elated after giving birth to a four-and-a-half pound boy. Little did she know that she and her husband, Chavali will face the most traumatic moment o ftheir life.


Lakshmi’s boy was prematurely born and had weak lungs. As a result, Lakshmi and Chavali took him to a government hospital to cure their newborn’s respiratory complications. The child was taken to the pediatric ward for special care and was placed in an incubation unit for his recovery.


Many hospitals in India have this regulation that nobody from the baby’s family is allowed hear the incubator because of health and hygiene concerns. So the couple would monitor their baby’s health by pacing around the room. One day noticed that there were a number of rats in the ward. They alerted an administrator at the hospital, Dr. Venugopala Rao, who put in a request with the engineering department to fix the hole in the ceiling where the rats were entering.


Little else was thought of the rats until the next day when Chavali heard his son screaming and asked one of the nurses to check on him. The nurses delayed this request, despite the boy’s screams continuing with increased urgency. When they did finally go to the incubator, they found that there were two rats inside who had gnawed off some of the child’s fingers, part of his legs, and most of his left eye. Although the child was rushed to the intensive care unit (ICU), there was little chance for recovery. Sadly, the child died the following day.


To make this tragedy even more bizarre, while the government in Andhra Pradesh is conducting a report on the incident, the father who had recently lost his son was questioned. According to him, after his son had been declared dead, a hospital administrator had tried to cheer him up by reminding him that ‘you have another son.’ Until the government’s investigation is completed, both Dr. Rao and the administrator are suspended.