Cause And Effect Of Online Education: A Humble Request To Parents

Most of your kids will be attending online classes and addicted to gadgets, please be very careful.

I am writing about the current happening for which we had to travel to my native (Thiruvattar, Nagercoil) on Friday.
My wife’s elder sister’s son was doing his 12th, a very bright kid, an only child.

His online classes start at 10, so the laptop is on by 9 am. Due to peer pressure and school pressure with the online classes going on he used to either be on laptop or mobile at least till 11 pm. No physical activity at all, no one to play due to the heavy spread of corona in Trivandrum and being a single child.

On Tuesday morning, he was saying he was not feeling well, 2 days prior to that he had mild pain in his left hand. No one took that seriously. On Tuesday, he was saying he doesn’t want to attend class and wanted to be with parents’. The parents were surprised and asked him to take a rest. He tried to sleep but was not able to, he asked his father not to go to the office. His father asked if we should go to the hospital, the child said everywhere there is corona which hospital to go to, I will be alright after a good sleep. He asked his father to go to work. He said he was very hungry and asked his mother to feed him dosa. He again tried to sleep but could not, then around the afternoon, he called his father to come home immediately and take him to hospital. His father came home within 15 min and the child came and hugged him and said take me to the hospital.

By the time he started the car, the child collapsed. They rushed to a hospital 4 km away and the doctor checked for pulse it was not there. They tried CPR and the heart started to function. They took all scans and found the child was brain dead. They tried all medication till Saturday morning and finally decided to remove the ventilator.

He is now no more. The pathetic thing is the hospital has handed over the body to police since the child was unconscious when brought to the hospital and in his teens. They will hand over the body only after the postmortem and corona test. So not sure if we would get it today or tomorrow.

The doctor said this is 3rd such case during this lockdown period. Heavy usage of gadgets, radiation has affected the brain and stopped the supply of oxygen.

Use gadgets sparingly, no to earphone/headset. A humble request to parents and kids, please take care of your kids. Ask them to read-only hard copy books and no gadgets except for attending class.

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