Cuttack, April 20: SCB Medical College and Hospital authorities today started treatment of the burn victim, whose family members had demonstrated near Naveen Nivas, the residence of Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar, last night.

Tarannum Begum, a Class-VII student from Pipili, was rushed to Capital Hospital after she suffered burn injuries in an accident at her house around 10am yesterday.

She was trying to cook in the absence of others at home when the mishap occurred. She suffered over 50 per cent burn injuries.

Tarannum was rushed to Pipili Hospital and was then shifted to Capital Hospital around 1pm. After preliminary treatment there, she was referred to SCB Medical College and Hospital, where doctors asked her parents to get her admitted to the special paediatric ward at Sishu Bhavan.

However, the Sishu Bhavan authorities allegedly did not treat her and asked her family members to take her back to SCB. After this drama, the victim’s family decided to shift Tarannum to Vivekananda Hospital in Bhubaneswar where the family was asked to deposit Rs 15,000.

The family said they had initially the hospital authorities Rs 5,000 and requested them to start treatment. Though the doctors began treatment and gave the patient a saline and injection at Vivekananda Hospital, they again asked her family to shift her back to SCB.

“Nobody was ready to admit my daughter. We had to move from pillar to post and finally stage a demonstration near the chief minister’s residence yesterday,” said the victim’s father Sk Zahir, 45.

Zahir said the security personnel outside the chief minister’s residence asked him to vacate the high-security zone.

“The security personnel called police and later the officials of a PCR van took me and my daughter to Capital Hospital where the doctors admitted her. Later, my daughter was shifted to SCB around 11pm when her condition deteriorated,” he said.