ROHTAK, Oct. 6 -- An eight-year-old boy who spent nearly two years fighting for every breath on a ventilator was finally able to leave Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (PGIMS) Rohtak on Monday.

Brought to the hospital unconscious at the age of six with high fever and immobile limbs, he survived 23 months of intensive care, supported by doctors and nurses at the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) who refused to give up on him ending the ordeal of his father Sombir Dahiya of Garhi Sisana village in Sonepat district.

He was unconscious, running a high fever and unable to move his limbs. His condition was critical and he required prolonged ventilator support. Nearly two years later, he was discharged after making...