“He had some food in the evening. When he slept around 10 pm, his mother fed him milk. At 4 am, he began groaning in his sleep. His fists were clenched and he was shaking,” says a visibly tired Dilip, who has just returned. The family took Birju to a local doctor who had little idea of what he was dealing with. The next doctor asked them to go to a government hospital in the town of Hajipur 40 kilometres away. There, little Birju was “referred” to another hospital in Patna.