Baby boy dies after falling into bucket of scalding-hot water and suffering 80% burns as his mother prepared a bath for him in Ukraine
- Daniil Chernenko’s heart stopped on Thursday two days after his first birthday
- The baby had battled for his life in hopsital in Odessa with agonising burns
- Incident happened as his mother Tetyana was preparing to bath her baby boy
- Tetyana – who was with Daniil when he died – has been unable to forgive herself
A baby boy has died after falling into a bucket of scalding water and suffering catastrophic burns as his mother prepared his bath in Ukraine.
Doctors had battled to save Daniil Chernenko after he suffered burns to 80 per cent of his body in the village of Salhany in southern Ukraine’s Odessa Oblast region.
His heart stopped beating after 11 days in a critical condition, just two days after his first birthday and staff at the hospital in Odessa were unable to resuscitate him.
Tetyana Chernenko was with her son when he died and has not been able to forgive herself for what happened, reports say.
Daniil Chernenko died just two days after his first birthday following an 11 day battle at the hospital in the city of Odessa. He is pictured fighting for his life in hospital earlier this month
His mother Tetyana Chernenko said she had been preparing his bath and had turned away for just a few seconds when her baby plunged into the scalding hot bucket of water
Mrs Chernenko has been unable to forgive herself, as police are treating the incident as an accident
The incident is said to have unfolded when the baby was about to have a bath. His mother Tetyana Chernenko reportedly brought a bucket with boiling water into the bedroom and put it on the floor near a table.
She planned to mix some boiling water with cold water in a baby bathtub that was standing on the table so she could bath her son.
At this point, Daniil was playing on the table near the bathtub. But when his mother turned away for a few seconds to take some cold water, the child fell from the table into the scalding hot bucket of water.
Mrs Chernenko said: ‘I saw how he fell in the boiling water. I rushed to the bucket and pulled him out.
‘I hugged him, then wrapped him in a cotton cloth. When I unwrapped him I saw his skin was peeling off.’
Daniil was rushed to hospital in Odessa, the capital city of the region, in critical condition and diagnosed with burns to 80 per cent of his body.
Pictures taken by Katherine Nozhevnikova, a volunteer from a local charity organisation, show Daniil lying on the bed after being hospitalised.
It had been reported that only patches of skin on the youngster’s forehead, fingers and toes escaped being affected.
Daniil was rushed to hospital in Odessa, the capital city of the region, in critical condition and diagnosed with burns to 80 per cent of his body
Hospital staff said the child became hoarse from the constant crying caused by his unbearable pain
Hospital staff said the child became hoarse from the constant crying caused by his unbearable pain.
Mrs Nozhevnikova said: ‘Ten litres of boiling water and just a few seconds during which the mother’s attention was diverted.
‘The child won 11 days of life thanks to people who donated funds for his treatment. We have lost him. I am so sorry.’
Police are treating the case as an accident.