Mother's prayers bring 'dead' son to life

In a miraculous incident, love and prayers of a mother brought her son back from the jaws of death in Telangana. Gandham Kiran, 18, was suffering from dengue and jaundice. Even when the doctors advised the mother to take the teen off life support, she stayed adamant on saving her child.

Hyderabad:In a bizarre incident, an 18-year old boy, who was diagnosed with dengue and jaundice and was declared brain dead by doctors at a hospital here, regained consciousness when his relatives and friends were mourning and making arrangements for his last rites.

Following the declaration by doctors that there was no hope of reviving Kiran, he was taken off the ventilator and transported wearing an oxygen mask in an ambulance back home in Pillalamarri village of Telangana's Suryapet district on July 3.

As Kiran's family had been informed that he will breathe his last in a couple of hours, relatives from different places had gathered at his home for the last rites.

Kiran's mother, Gandham Saidamma, who was not informed about her son's condition, was shocked on reaching home in another vehicle to find the relatives arranging flowers, firewood and other material for his funeral. She broke down, crying inconsolably.

Thereafter, around midnight, some relatives noticed that tears were rolling down Kiran's cheeks.

They called a local Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP) G Rajababu Reddy, who checked the patient and found a faint pulse. He spoke to the doctor who had treated Kiran at a Hyderabad hospital and on his advice started administering injections.

The day after, the doctor found Kiran showing some body movements. He was then admitted to a local hospital. Following three days of treatment, Kiran regained consciousness and started talking to his mother in a feeble voice.

"Now he has come back home and is taking some liquid diet. We are continuing the medication," Saidamma told over phone from Pillalamarri.

His mother believes God answered her prayers and gave a new lease of life to her younger son.

"After losing my husband in 2005, I worked as a labourer to raise my two sons. They are everything for me," said Saidamma.

Kiran is a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) student at a college in Suryapet. His elder brother, Sateesh, who has done his graduation in Arts, is currently looking for a job.

Sateesh said that Kiran, who had started vomiting on June 26, was first admitted to a government district hospital in Suryapet. When he showed no improvement, he was shifted to a private hospital in Vanasthalipuram on the outskirts of Hyderabad where he was diagnosed with dengue and jaundice and later slipped into a coma.