An eight-year-old girl, Leeketha Baganna from the Indian state of Telengana, studying at Indian School Seeb in Oman died suddenly after complaining of stomach pain and vomiting, according to Times of Oman.
“She was taken into the first aid room in the school after she was found vomiting. Immediately, we informed her parents and at around 10am, her uncle came and picked her up,” a school official said. At home, her mother, Rajitha, called up her father, Buggaraju Baganna, who was in Nizwa. “After Leeketha’s father arrived, he took her to a private hospital at Al Khoud where she was declared dead on arrival,” her uncle Ram Mudhiraj said.
She had complained to her parents of stomach pain, and they thought it better to wait a few weeks to have her treated in India during the school holidays, due to start from June 4.
“They consulted some doctors here but the cost of her treatment was very high. So they were planning for her treatment in India during summer vacation,” Mudhiraj said. He added that she had difficulty in digesting whatever she ate.
Her mother, who could only speak her own language Telugu, could not take her daughter to hospital as she had no transport and felt she had no means of communicating with hospital staff.
The family and the school authorities are, however, still clueless regarding the cause of her death.
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