A one-and-a-half year old child choked to death at a day care center in Navavur Pirivu on Wednesday.
According to police, Prethika was dropped off at the day-care center by her parents on their way to work on Wednesday morning. Her father Ranjith Kumar was a lathe worker while her mother was employed at a mill.
The incident happened when Prethika was having lunch. She was rushed to a private hospital when she started choking but doctors there declared her as brought dead. There was some tension in front of the government hospital where the post-mortem was being conducted.
The doctors who conducted her postmortem said she might have been fed while crying. The balls of rice she was being fed were huge and she choked to death immediately. The doctors found several grains of rice in her windpipe, said a source at CMCH. It would have been easier to save her if she had choked on a single piece of food, he added.
The Vadavalli police have registered a case of unnatural death.
According to police, Prethika was dropped off at the day-care center by her parents on their way to work on Wednesday morning. Her father Ranjith Kumar was a lathe worker while her mother was employed at a mill.
The incident happened when Prethika was having lunch. She was rushed to a private hospital when she started choking but doctors there declared her as brought dead. There was some tension in front of the government hospital where the post-mortem was being conducted.
The doctors who conducted her postmortem said she might have been fed while crying. The balls of rice she was being fed were huge and she choked to death immediately. The doctors found several grains of rice in her windpipe, said a source at CMCH. It would have been easier to save her if she had choked on a single piece of food, he added.
The Vadavalli police have registered a case of unnatural death.