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No First Aid to Rat Bite Passenger on Chennai Bound Train
Rat bites passenger on Chennai-bound train, authorities fail to provide him first aid
CHENNAI: A passenger suffered an injury on his hand after a rat bit him onboard the Salem-Chennai Express train in the wee hours of Saturday.
N Venkatachalam, who boarded the train at Salem on Friday night, allegedly did not receive first aid and medical assistance though he alerted travelling ticket examiner (TTE) soon after the incident.
However, the TTE gave him some painkiller tablets and allegedly forced him to mention that he had been provided first aid in his complaint to the railways.
A railway police official said that the passenger was promised medical assistance at Vridhachalam but it did not come. He had to go to a hospital when the train reached Egmore in the morning as the railway authorities did not help him.
