Navi Mumbai: A 14-year-old student of a Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation school in Ghansoli died during the school picnic at a theme park in Raigad district, after he collapsed purportedly due to cardiac arrest. The incident occurred on Tuesday around 4pm, police said. The student, identified as Ayush Singh, was studying in class 8.
NMMC’s education department had organised the picnic wherein 1,018 students of civic schools in Chinchpada, Ghansoli and Turbhe were taken to the park. The MNS Navi Mumbai president Gajanan Kale demanded suspension of NMMC’s education officer and deputy municipal commissioner alleging their negligence in providing prompt medical help to the student. NMMC commissioner Kailas Shinde said, “The local police registered an accidental death case in this incident. As per the preliminary report of the civic hospital, the school boy’s cause of death was due to ‘mayocardial infarction’ (cardiac arrest).”
Raigad SP Somnath Gharge said, “As the schoolboy felt uncomfortable, he was rushed to the park’s primary health facility and then to a hospital in Khopoli, where the doctors declared him brought dead. His postmortem report confirmed cardiac arrest as the boy’s cause of death.”