Three-year-old Sanjana, who had survived a building collapse in Bengaluru’s Ejipura, succumbed to her burn injuries at Victoria Hospital, on Thursday, 19 October. According to hospital authorities, she died because of multiple organ failure caused by the burns she suffered in the collapse.
The child had a miraculous escape after a two-storey residential building collapsed following a gas cylinder explosion, killing seven persons, including her parents Saravana and Ashwini, on Monday, 16 October. Sanjana, was the only survivor of a family of three, which lived on the ground floor of the collapsed building.
Satish HS, Medical Superintendent of Victoria Hospital, said Sanjana passed away around 5pm on Thursday, 19 October. “She was undergoing treatment at our burns ward since Monday with 60 percent burns. She died due to a multiple organ failure. We have notified her relatives,” he said.
According to doctors who treated her, the condition was not stable ever since she was brought in. “Although she was responding to the treatment, the fact that she was only three years old and she had suffered 60 percent burns, made survival difficult. But by today (Thursday) evening, her condition deteriorated,” the doctor said.
Sanjana and her parents were living on the ground floor of the two-storey building that collapsed on Monday morning. Sanjana was found in the debris, close to her mother’s body, more than three hours after the building collapsed.
According to rescue workers, she was under some furniture, which reduced the impact of the collapse; however, she suffered serious burns in the cylinder blast, which caused the collapse.
As she was orphaned in the tragedy, the Karnataka government had announced they would take care of her education and other needs. Her grandmother and uncle were taking care of her following the tragedy, at the hospital. Hospital authorities said that they will take over Sanajana’s remains after formalities are completed.
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