Boy in coma after fall in school

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">NOIDA: Yet another prestigious school is in the limelight for wrong reasons. A 10-year-old student of Noida''s Khaitan Public School, is in coma after he fell off the school staircase.<br /><br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="38.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/1008463.cms" alt="/photo/1008463.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Doctors are desperately battling to save Michael''s life - a kidney and spleen have been removed even as he lies in Intensive Care Unit at Noida Medical Centre.<br /><br />On January 25, Michael had fallen from the second-floor staircase to the ground floor.<br /><br />The school authorities rushed him to the hospital, which diagnosed him with a damaged kidney and spleen, fracture in his hand, severe head injury besides internal and external bleeding.<br /><br />While the boy has been battling for his life for over a week now, equally helpless are the boy''s parents who are hearing and speech impaired.<br /><br />Michael has been put on expensive life support and other critical treatment besides costly diagnostics, the provisional bill for which has already run to Rs 1.30 lakh.<br /><br />Zorain holds a clerical job with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.He supports a family of six. Paying back the hefty amount will be another nightmare.<br /><br />Michael''s father, Zorain, has approached the school for help. The school has agreed to give Rs 1 lakh but on one condition - that Zorain submits post-dated cheques of the same amount for April 30. The school feels that since Zorain is a government employee he is likely to be compensated.<br /><br />However, there are various versions of how Michael fell from the staircase.<br /><br />While some say the stairs had no bannisters, the school''s founder-principal R Sandhu said that Michael was sliding down the hand-rail of a staircase after school and fell.<br /><br />When asked about some bannisters that were put in after the incident, the school''s founder-principal R Sandhu said the staircase had been safe even before. "We only put in some extra grills to provide additional protection," she said. <script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /><br />As the kid''s parents pray for his life, one question remains unanswered - does the school''s responsibility end with simply taking him to the hospital?</div> </div>