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Three-year-old Jalil Dass is recovering at home since Sunday after undergoing surgery following an attack by a dog at his Barrackpore home last week.
“He coming along. He recovering but it will take some time,” his mother, Cassyann Dass told Guardian Media on Tuesday.
However, she noted that while he is home, where the incident occurred, his trauma is evident.
“When he come home, he remember the dog in the gallery. He saying, you know, dog bite him, dog bite him so it’s something he’d get over in time to come,” she said.
Now, Dass said they are exploring the option of therapy for the family after the incident.
“We want to do that. Even for me, it was a traumatising experience because mentally, nobody would know what I face as the mother, seeing these things, dealing with these things (with) my child going through surgery and through it all and I had to really deal with it by myself because not everybody allowed to be in the hospital with me,” she said.
Dass commended the doctors for an excellent job reconstructing the boy’s face.
“He did plastic surgery because of the extent of the damage. But it did real neat, real good. They did a real good job. It will scar but they not sure like how the muscles in his face going to react because they said have some spots he might lose the feeling, he might not be able to do certain gestures,” she said.
Jalil was playing with a ball in the gallery of his Mussarap North home around 2.20 pm on Monday, November 14 when the incident occurred. Dass rushed to his aid and fought the dog off her son. She said the dog belonged to a resident of the area.
The family is now taking legal action against the owner of the dog and is represented by attorney, Anand Ramlogan.