Tirupati: Just after a day the health minister, Dr Kamineni Srinivas, made a grand statement of turning Chittoor district into a medicinal hub during his visit, an engineering student who met with a road accident nearby P. Kothakota in Puthalapattu mandal of Chittoor district on Sunday, succumbed to injuries owing to the lack of facilities at the local primary health centre.
According to the Puthalapattu police, B. Sarath Kumar, a third year student, met with an accident when he was trying to cross the road, nearby his college on the way to Nayudupeta-Chittoor highway. Despite the fact that he was rushed to a primary health centre immediately at P. Kothakota, he lost his life as there were no such facilities that could save his life.
With no doctor available at the health centre immediately and as timely treatment was denied to the boy, who met with the accident, he had to lose his life. The parents and relatives of the boy tried to shift him to Chittoor but before that the boy succumbed to injuries.
Fuming with anger and seeing the delay in treatment and lack of facilities which claimed the life of their boy, parents and relatives staged a protest at the hospital.
Puthalapattu police reached the spot and appeased the parents that they would take up the issue to the notice of the district medical and health officer.
