Malegaon: The three serial blasts that rocked the small communally sensitive town of Malegaon on Friday dealt a severe blow on the physical and mental health of the minors.
Among those dead and injured in Friday’s terror attack, children in the age group of 8 to14 years constituted a sizeable number.
According to hospital authorities, victims are mostly children and their numbers are in high proportion than expected.
The picture in all the hospitals is very much the same with two to three children occupying single bed.
Children were worst affected since they were in large number in the Bada Kabaristan where two out of the three blasts were triggered. The stampede that followed injured as many as forty children who were caught in the trampling feet of the adults.
The Shab-e-Barat is an occasion where children are usually in large numbers accompanying their elders to pay respect to their dead ones and last Friday was no exception, as there were large numbers of children at the burial ground.
At Farhan Hospital, nurses informed that most of the children injured in the blasts have fractures as they were trampled by the panic-struck crowd.
Apart from the physiological injuries, children
who have survived the attack are now in a state of trauma. While some have lost their near and dear ones, the scenes of blood and shredded human body parts have almost shaken the young minds.
Riaz, in his hospital bed is constantly weeping for he has yet to recover from the trauma. Another eight-year girl who has been orphaned in the blasts is keeping mum and has not spoken a single word, since she regained her consciousness.
The hospital authorities do not know how to tackle this situation and has no facilities to provide relief to such patients.
With Malegaon having no trauma centres, the private hospitals are now mulling over the idea of using psychiatrists to deal with minors who have been traumatised by the blasts.
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