CHENNAI: Despite best efforts and treatment, a one-and-a-half-year-old child, Mohammed Mahir, who was treated for bleeding in the brain and related complications died in Chennai on Sunday, senior government doctors said.
The child was a "premature baby" and bleeding in the brain resulted in increase in the size of the head. To drain the accumulated fluid, a (shunt tube) tube was inserted when the child was 5-month old.