Hyderabad: Class 6 student dies of ‘heart attack’

Hyderabad: A Class 6 student of Delhi Public School, Nadergul, died of a heart attack on Saturday. G. Adarsh was climbing the stairs when he collapsed while on his way to his class room on the second floor and finally died at a hospital.

Adarsh informed his friend that he will return with his school bag but he collapsed as he was taking the stairs. Guards alerted the school officials who rushed him to nearby Amma Hospital after alerting his parents. He was shifted to an ambulance midway and reached the hospital with a very low pulse.

Doctors informed, it was a case of heart attack. A hospital official said the student had started responding to treatment. He was then shifted to Kamineni Hospital for better treatment, doctors there tried to revive him but he was dead by then, reports DC.

Police said he had won the third prize in an inter-school singing competition held at DPS, Mahindra Hills. The 60 students of DPS Nadergul, who participated in the event, returned to the school after school hours at 3.45 pm.

Mr Balath Raj, the administrative officer of DPS, Nadergul, dismissed reports that Adarsh’s parents had not been informed, and that the student was taken to the hospital on a two-wheeler.

“We have CCTV footage to show the sequence of events. We have asked the police to confirm after watching the footage,” he said.

He said the school officials had tried administering first aid on Adarsh as soon as he collapsed. This is Adarsh’s second year in the school. Adarsh’s father G. Ravinder, a farmer, has signed papers to donate his son’s eyes to LV Prasad Eye Hospital.

Based on a complaint from Mr Ravinder, the Adibhatla police has registered a case of suspicious death. “We are verifying all angles. Based on the evidence, we will proceed,” said Adibhatla inspector R. Govinda Reddy Sai.