A team of five doctors at Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital (KMCH) will provide treatment to and run tests on a nine-day-old baby boy whose parents claim is a victim of spontaneous combustion. Doctors admitted the child, whose mother K Rajeswari, 22, is from T Parangini in Villupuram district, to the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) where they will monitor him at all times by surveillance camera. Rajeswari had in August 2013 said her older son Rahul, then three years old, spontaneously caught fire. Rahul's parents brought him to KMCH, where doctors ran a series of tests on the boy and debunked the claims of his parents.
They raised doubts that he could have been a victim of abuse by his parents or relatives or had been burnt in an accidental fire. KMCH dean Dr N Gunasekaran heads the team of doctors treating Rajeswari's younger child. Others in the team include the heads of the…
