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The newborn’s father, Chavali Nagaraju Babu, today claimed that authorities at the Government General Hospital in Guntur town had added insult to injury, saying he needn’t fret as he had “another son”.
The baby’s mother, Lakshmi, had given birth to the couple’s second son on August 17 in a government hospital in Vijayawada before the infant was shifted to the paediatric ward in the Guntur hospital for treating the lung problem.
“Early on Sunday morning my son started crying. As we are not allowed to stand next to the incubator, I urged the nurses to check on him. By the time they did, rats had eaten away the fingers of his right hand and also the eye,” Lakshmi said.
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