The Eye Care Clinic at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh sees about 10 children a month who don’t have insurance coverage or the money for glasses. This new fund could help provide glasses for as many as 120 kids a year.
The head of the Pittsburgh Zoo says a medical examiner has concluded that a toddler who fell into an African painted dog exhibit Sunday was killed by the animals, not by the fall.
Barbara Baker, CEO and president of the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, said she received that information from the medical examiner’s office Monday.
Officials say the child’s mother had placed the three-year-old boy on a wooden rail above the exhibit. There is a net below the rail, but Baker says the boy bounced off it and into the enclosure 14 feet below.
Sunday’s African dogs deathShe says the animals attacked the child so quickly that by the time a veterinarian and other zoo staffers arrived seconds later, they determined it would have been futile to try to rescue the child.
