Boy, 4, dies in Ajman hospital a week after being hit by car

The Egyptian boy was crossing the road with his mother and little brother when he was run over.

AJMAN // A four-year-old boy left fighting for his life in hospital for a week after being run over by a car, has died.

The mother of the Egyptian boy, A R, said she was crossing the street with a pram containing her one-year-old son and she was holding her four-year-old’s hand when he suddenly broke free and, in an instant, he had been hit by a car.

The boy died on Thursday as a result of injuries suffered in the accident, which occurred at 5pm on January 6 at Al Nuaimiyah, between Ajman and Sharjah.

He was being treated at the intensive-care unit of Sheikh Khalifa Hospital in Ajman.

Dr Abdel Karim Helmy, head of Accident and Emergency at the hospital, said: “After he underwent a medical check-up at the A&E department, he entered ICU and spent eight days there until he died on January 14th at 1.40am.”

The boy suffered fractures to his left thigh and severe bleeding on the brain and was on a ventilator from his arrival at ICU until his death, the charge nurse said.

Since the beginning of December last year until now, the nurse said, there had been just three children admitted to the ICU at the hospital.

“All three cases happened because of car accidents – two of them left the unit after receiving medical treatment and the third one, A R, died.”

A four-year-old Afghan child, Y W, spent six days in ICU after suffering an injury to his stomach, and B A, 8, from Pakistan, had an injury to his head and spent 15 days in the unit, the nurse said.