A 10-year-old boy allegedly bitten by a rat on one of his toes while undergoing treatment for cancer at a government hospital here has died, an official said on Saturday. While the State Cancer Institute, where the boy was admitted on December 11, said the death was caused by “septicaemia shock and high infection” and not a rat bite, the Rajasthan government has constituted a committee to probe the matter.
Hospital superintendent Dr Sandeep Jasuja said, “The child also had fever and pneumonia. He died due to high infection septicaemia shock on Friday”.