Army Doctor Captain Nikita Srivastava brought five-year-old comatose Seema Boro back to life in Assam!

Captain Nikita Srivastava along with her team treated Seema Bora and got the five-year-old comatose girl back on her feet.

Five-year-old Seema Boro, a resident of Santipur village in Assam’s Udalgiri district was suffering from a serious medical condition that put her in a coma. The little girl was suffering from Infectious Encaphalitis, a condition where brain tissues get swollen up in due to an infection. This condition is life threatening and sometimes proves fatal too if left untreated. Seema’s poor parents took her to private hospitals in Tezpur and Guwahati. However, when her condition did not improve and the medical treatment started draining their small savings, they returned home to Assam with no hope of her recovery. However, they heard about the Indian Army’s Udalguri- based Red Horn Division’s field hospital which renders 24×7 medical services to not only the soldiers but also the common people. Captain Nikita Srivastava along with her team treated Seema Bora and got the five-year-old comatose girl back on her feet.

The swelling in the brain due to infection increases the intra-cranial pressure causing high fever, visual and respiratory disturbances loss of consciousness, stiff neck and seizure. Captain Nikita Srivastava and her team detected the medical cause behind the girl’s condition. They took her case as a challenge and got Seema Boro back on her feet. The doctor consulted a well-known paediatrician in her home town Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh for Seema’s treatment. “When she came to the field hospital, she was in a state of coma. However, when she started walking again, it was like a miracle,” says Lt Colonel Suneet Newton, Army spokesperson, Guwahati. Ex-Army officer Satyendra Verma completes India’s highest base jump of 600 ft from a Noida building (Watch video)

Captain Nikita Srivastava who treated the girl for free told Times of India, “”When Seema came to the field hospital, she was in a comatose condition. Though she needed treatment in ICU conditions, we provided her the treatment to the best of our efforts at the field hospital, which just has basic medical facilities. Seema’s treatment went on for a year from October 2015 to October 2016. For the first 20 days, she was hospitalised as she was in a bad state. Later, when she started showing signs of improvement, we sent her home. Every day, the Army unit’s vehicle used to pick her up in the morning and after treatment throughout the day she used to be dropped at home by evening. This daily check-up went on for three months. Thereafter, when the girl’s condition significantly improved, she started coming to the hospital with her parents for follow-up check-ups.”

Captain Nikita Srivastava further said, “Though there was a language barrier between her and me as she only knew Assamese language, she lightened up and hugged me after she started feeling well. Her mother told me that they had lost hope and feared losing her. However, after her treatment at the field hospital, she said, ‘It was because of you that our daughter is alive today’.”

Thanks to the Indian Army field hospital, Seema Boro got a new lease of life and has started leading a normal life, she will soon start going to school.