Haleram Mallik who lives in Howrah of West Bengal travelled to Balasore in search of his son after he did not pick up calls since the train accident happene♔d in Odisha. Luckily Haleram Mallik found his son alive but surprisingly inside a makeshift morgue with corpses from the accident.
Mallik pulled out his 24-year-old son Biswajit from Bahanꦑaga High School which was converted into a makeshift morgue for the dead bodie🐠s coming from the accident site. They rushed to Balasore Hospital for treatment and further shifted him to SSKM Hospital in Kolkata.
According to the reports, Biswajit suffered multiple bone iꦅnjuries in his limbs and underwent two surgeries at the trauma care unit of SSKM Hos༒pital.
Haleram Mallik runs a kinara shop in Howrah said, "I saw the news on TV and then realised that I must call Biswajit to find ou🃏t if he was okay. He did not initially pick up the calls and then when he did, I could hear a feeble voice on the other side."
On the same night (June 2), he and his brother-in-law Dipak Das left 🐟for Balasore in an ambulance.
"We could not find him as calls to his mobile went unanswered. We visited different hospitals but Biswajit was nowhere. We then went to a makeshift morgue at Bahanaga High School but were denied entry initially. Suddenly, there was an altercation among a few people followed by a commotion. Suddenly, I spotted a hand and knew it was my son's. He was alive," Helaram🐽 said.
Without wasting a moment, Helaram took his "almost unresponsive"ౠ son to Balasore Hospital where🥃 he was administered a few injections and then referred to Cuttack Medical College and Hospital.
"He had multiple fractures on his limbs and could not utter anything. I signed a bond there and brought Biswajit to SSKM Hospital's trauma care unit on Monday🅺 morning," he said.
Why was his son considered dead?
Asked why people mistook him as "dead"꧙, a doctor at SSKM Hospital said Biswajit might have gone into 'suspended animation' — a state of slowing down biological functions — leading people to think that he was dead.
On Monday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Biswajit and those injured un🍎dergoing treatment at SSKM Hospita💟l.
"I would like to thank God for giving back my son. I ca෴n’t explain what was going in my 📖mind when I heard Biswajit was dead. I was not ready to accept that he was no more and kept on looking for him," Helaram said.
"I feel I got a n🌸ew life. I owe it to my father. He is God to me and because of him, I have got back this life again. Baba is ev🍸erything to me," Biswajit told PTI from the hospital bed.
Coromandel Express, in whi﷽ch Biswajit was travelling, crashed into a🔯 stationary goods train, derailing most of its coaches at 7 pm on June 2.
A few coachesౠ of Coromandel toppled over the last few coaches of the Bengaluru-Howrah Express which was passing 𒅌by at the same time. A goods train was also involved in the crash.
Investigators are looking into possible human error, signal failure, a🥂nd other possible causes behind the three-train crash.🎐 In all, 278 people have died and over 1200 injured in the tragic incident.
(With PTI inputs)
