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Boy, 2, fighting for life after falling into huge cooking pot of boiling water in Ukraine
A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy was almost boiled alive after he accidentally fell into a pot of scalding-hot water in Ukraine. Ivan Maletych is fighting for his life after he suffered horrific burns to 70 per cent of his body, in the village of Susidovychi in southern Ukraine’s Lviv Oblast region. Heartbreaking pictures taken by a charity […]
A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy was almost boiled alive after he accidentally fell into a pot of scalding-hot water in Ukraine.
Ivan Maletych is fighting for his life after he suffered horrific burns to 70 per cent of his body, in the village of Susidovychi in southern Ukraine’s Lviv Oblast region.
Heartbreaking pictures taken by a charity volunteer show Ivan lying on the bed covered in bandages after being hospitalised.
The incident is said to have happened when the boy’s mother Ivanna Maletych was preparing to wash some clothes.
She heated 40 litres of water in a cooking pot, then left it on the floor of her kitchen before heading to a local supermarket to buy some bread.
Mother-of-four Mrs Maletych said to local media: “Ivan was playing in the house while his elder brother was watching cartoons.
“I think he entered the kitchen and accidentally fell into the cooking pot of boiling water.
“My husband was in the courtyard near the house.
“My heart is broken and I cannot forgive myself for what happened”
Ivanna Maletych
“He heard screams and rushed to our son.”
Mr Maletych immediately realised what had happened when he entered the kitchen after hearing his son’s screams.
He took off the boy’s clothes and doused the child with cold water.
Ivan was then rushed to the city of Lviv, the capital of the region, and admitted to the intensive care unit.
He was diagnosed with severe burns to 70 per cent of his body including fourth-degree burns.
A picture taken in the hospital shows Ivan lying on the bed covered in bandages soaked with blood.
Doctors from the Lviv Burn Centre hospital are battling to save the boy’s life, but have not commented on his chances of survival.
Victor Pyzhevsky, the head deputy of the hospital’s emergency department, said: “The boy is in a critical condition.
“He is receiving mechanical ventilation.”
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Ivanna Maletych said: “I am constantly in the hospital with my son.
“Doctors say nothing on his chances of survival.
“My heart is broken and I cannot forgive myself for what happened.”
Police are treating the case as an accident.
Last month, a one-year-old boy died after he fell into a bucket of boiling water his mother was using to fill a bath.
Doctors battled for 11 days to save Daniil Chernenko’s life, but his body was covered in 80 per cent burns and could not be saved.
Daniil’s mother, Tetyana Chernenko, was about to bathe him at home in the village of Salhany in southern Ukraine.
