For friends and relatives, it is moving to see both mother and daughter lying on beds albeit in different hospitals. Little Ramya, all of 10 years, is battling for life in Care hospital of Banjara Hills with doctors doing their bit to save her.
Roughly two kilometres away in Yashoda hospital of Somajiguda, her mother Radhika is recuperating. More traumatising is the fact that the mother is unaware of her daughter’s condition. That is the heart rending story of techie Venkatramana’s family.
Five members of the family met with an accident near Punjagutta graveyard three days ago that shattered their world. Ramya and four other members of the family were passing by Punjagutta graveyard in their Santro car when an i10 car crashed into their car . Death was instant for Ramya’s uncle Rajesh who was driving the Santro. Ramya was grievously hurt with her pelvic bone fractured. She is in coma since then. Presently, she is in the neurosurgical intensive care unit.
“Normally, mother would have been by her side in such condition. See our fate, Ramya’s mother doesn’t even know about her daughter’s condition,” said a relative with choked voice. They didn’t inform her about injuries sustained by Ramya apprehending that she would be disturbed and that might affect her recovery.
She didn’t know that her brother-in-law Rajesh, who was driving the car, died on the spot. “She must be thinking that Rajesh and Ramya are safe which is not true,” the relatives said. Rajesh’s body was preserved in Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) for two days.
It was shifted to Hanamkonda in Warangal after performing autopsy here. His final rites were performed on Monday evening. Venkatramana’s family hailed from Warangal. Even Venkatramana’s father Madhusudhana Chary, a retired engineer of Irrigation department who was also injured in the accident and admitted in Yashoda hospital, was not informed about his son’s death.
Venkatramana’s second brother Ramesh, a civil contractor, is also admitted in the same hospital after the accident. His pelvic bone was dislocated. “We’re angry over the youngster whose rash driving took away one of our family member’s life but at the same time I feel God cursed us,” he said with tears in his eyes.
