Six-year-old girl chokes on snacks, dies

Thiruvananthapuram: A six-year-old girl choked on her snacks and died on Sunday. Niveditha, daughter of Rajesh and Kavitha of Thevarpazhinji near Poozhikunnu under Nemom police station limits is the deceased.
Choking occurs when an object or food gets lodged in the throat or windpipe, blocking the airflow.
Sources close to the family said that the girl displayed symptoms of choking around 3pm. She was lying on her back on the bed and having snacks when she started choking.Rajesh, who is an autorickshaw driver, rushed the girl to Government Taluk Hospital at Santhivila near Nemom in his vehicle. The doctors sent her to Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College Hospital in an ambulance after providing her with oxygen supply.
But the doctors at the medical college hospital declared that the girl was already dead before she reached the hospital.
It is suspected that her windpipe was blocked by the particles of the snacks she was munching on, leading to the choking.
Niveditha is the only daughter of Rajesh and Kavitha. They had got married over a decade ago. She was born after several years of waiting and many rounds of treatment.
The girl's body is kept in the mortuary of the medical college hospital. A Covid test and post mortem examination will be conducted on Monday.
The girl's untimely death happened when the family were preparing to enroll her into a school. According to close relatives, it was only two days ago that Rajesh took her to a studio for taking her photographs. Niveditha's mother Kavitha is a homemaker.