Mumbai, March 19: Despite accident a day earlier, 16-yr-old requests docs to delay operation; writes exam from hospital bed.
He wrote his SSC exam sitting in hospital yesterday, medical tubes snaking around him. Despite the pain in his urinary tract, Abdul Qayyum (16) took his Marathi exam, the last paper, at Marker Hospital in Chembur.
Qayyum, a student of Ideal High School in Trombay, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday night after he sustained injuries in an accident earlier in the evening. Although the boy was to undergo surgery yesterday, he requested doctors to defer the operation till he finished writing the paper.
“My son had an accident around 6.30 pm on Wednesday. He was riding pillion on a bicycle which rammed into a vehicle,” said Abdul Hashim, the boy’s father. While writing the paper, he had pain in the urinary passage, and blood oozed out of his private parts, he added.
Hashim contacted his exam centre at Mohite-Patil Vidyalaya in Mankhurd and the SSC board’s divisional office in Vashi. “They were quick to make arrangements for my son to take the exam in hospital. He wrote the paper despite the terrible pain he was in,” said Hashim. “The principal of Mohite-Patil Vidyalay coordinated with the board, and doctors immediately arranged for Qayyum to write his exam in hospital,” said Sambhaji Jadhav, examination supervisor at the school. “Hats off to Qayyum who has shown such exemplary courage despite the physical pain.”
“As soon as we were informed, we made provisions for the student to appear from the hospital. The doctors confirmed that the boy was unable to move,” said V S Mhatre, secretary of Mumbai divisional board. “The boy was in acute pain due to injuries to his urinary passage,” said Dr Ketan Marker, the general surgeon treating Qayyum. “We postponed his operation to 2.30 pm as he wanted to appear for his board exam in the hospital.”
——-Agencies