Friend Of Deceased Telangana Guy Said His Friend Died of Illness, Not Of PUBG Addiction

On March 22, news of a 20-year-old guy from Telangana dying of PUBG addiction made the headlines and shocked everyone.

However, reports from the doctor who was in charge of him and his friend suggested that he passed away because of a separate illness, rather than an addiction to the video game.

According to Times Of India, Harish Palkurthi, who was now deceased Banda Sagar Yadav’s old roommates, did confirm that the viral video on the internet of his friend suffering from paralysis due to PUBG was not true. Palkurthi said that Sagar was actually going through treatment for a severe infection. In the viral video, people were just trying to ease his pain by making him laugh.

And now everyone thought he had died because of PUBG, which wasn't true.

Dr. Raj Kiran, an anesthesiologist working at the hospital at which Sagar was receiving treatment, believes that it is not possible for a 20-year-old youth to be paralyzed because of PUBG addiction.

The Hyderabad Times quoted him saying:

PUBG or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has made headlines recently, from people getting into an accident while playing, schools banning it, to people being arrested because of it. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has proposed a ban on the game on a national scale, stating its adverse-effects on students. In fact, the game has already been banned in some Indian cities.