When an 11-year-old village boy Chetan Gurav was rushed to JJ hospital last month, after he complained of acute breathlessness, doctors were shocked to discover that the Std V student was in cardiac failure.

Chetan was immediately rushed to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and after a battery of tests, doctors finally came to the conclusion that the boy was suffering from a rare medical condition, wherein a bacterial infection had caused pus to envelope his heart muscles, causing the organ to fail.