Rati out of coma and speaking, doctors claim memory intact

BHOPAL: Delhi girl Rati Tripathi, who lay in a pool of blood on railway tracks near Bina, has begun speaking and doctors at Bansal Hospital, Bhopal, claim her memory is intact. Her family, however, says she's still in terrorised by the horrific incident.
"Though we have not conducted an assessment of her memory, she remembers family members and it seems her memory is fine," said Dr Nitin Garg, consultant of Bansal Hospital where she's being treated after being thrown off Malwa Express on November 19 last year.
During an official medical bulletin, Dr Garg said her voice is back and the medical team is focused on stabilising her mental and physical condition.
"She cannot walk on her own, but is responding to treatment and physiotherapy. We cannot give a time-period, but are hopeful about recovery," said Dr Garg.
When Rati first spoke, she asked for Dr Garg and her physiotherapist, Dr Mansi, said her father Mahendranath Tripathi. Last month, she was in tears when chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan met her. She had even shook hands with Chouhan and wept.
Nearly one-and-half months after she was found on railway tracks, government railway police on January 2 claimed to have cracked the case with arrest of six people from Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh. Now, her family is hopeful Rati would soon be able to tell the world how she was thrown off the speeding train on November 19.
Doctors claim it may take at least three months for her to recover completely. Her father said they would visit Mahakal temple as soon as she is discharged from the hospital.