Date:25/07/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/07/25/stories/2006072506840100.htm

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Prince responding well to treatment: doctors

He has no external or internal injuries

Kurukshetra (Haryana): A day after six-year-old Prince was rescued from a deep pit where he was trapped for more than two days, doctors treating him at a hospital here said he had no apparent external or internal injuries and was responding well to treatment.

Survival instincts

The boy, who showed tremendous survival instincts by enduring the 50-hour long wait for help as he sat trapped in the pit, was also being given psychological help, said the medical superintendent of LNJP Hospital, where he is being treated.

No injuries

"Externally there are no injuries. X-ray tests have shown there are no internal injuries," he said adding they were conducting some more tests on him.

The boy will be at the hospital for two days, he said.

Though Prince ``is responding well'' to treatment, he was only talking to his parents, the doctor said.

"He is not responding or saying anything to anyone except his mother or father," the medical superintendent said.

Psychological basis

"We are treating him on partly psychological basis," he added. Prince had fallen into the trench in a village near Kurukshetra while playing hide-and-seek and was rescued nearly 50 hours later by Army soldiers aided by experts from the fire service and air force last night in an operation that was watched by the entire nation and also people abroad. — PTI