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Shah Mohiuddin at his home in Howrah on Tuesday. Picture by Gopal Senapati
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Severe pain and a sleepless night have left Madhyamik examinee Shah Mohiuddin, who was hit on the head by the blade of a ceiling fan at a north Calcutta exam centre on Monday, stressed and scared.
The 15-year-old boy would rather endure the heat than sit under a fan at the exam hall again. So scared is he that he has decided to approach the centre-in-charge at Oriental Seminary, the school where the accident occurred.
“I am not scared to write exams, but the thought of sitting under a ceiling fan scares me. So I will ask the school to ensure that there is no fan right above my seat even if it causes discomfort,” said the student at Jan High School who will write his English exam at the same centre on Wednesday. With the mercury likely to touch 32 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, it promises to be a hot day. The Madhyamik exams begin at noon and continue till 3pm.
The boy, who had to be given four stitches but managed to complete his exam on Monday, says he has been unable to study because of severe pain.
Mohiuddin underwent a CT scan at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on Monday evening. “After returning home from the hospital, I fell asleep. I woke up around 11pm and tried to read the notes my tutor had prepared for the English examination, but could not carry on because of a sharp pain,” he told Metro at his home on GT Road in Pilkhana, Howrah.
“I took the painkillers the doctor had prescribed but even that did not give me much relief. So I decided to go to sleep but the nagging pain troubled me all night,” Mohiuddin said.
When the boy’s condition did not improve in the morning and he vomited soon after breakfast, his parents called a local physician. “We were anxious that the head injury had caused the vomiting. All night he was tossing and turning in pain,” said Mohiuddin’s mother.
Abu Ansari, the doctor who examined the boy, said trauma had led to pain and fever. “He is in severe shock. A fear psychosis — that the accident might recur — has gripped him, causing deep stress. The tension of the exam is adding to the stress and making him unwell,” Ansari said. “I have advised him medicines that will calm his nerves and asked him to rest.”
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