The health of Prasad Barman, 42, who was gored by a male spotted deer at the Harinalaya Mini Zoo in New Town, improved on Saturday but he was still on a liquid diet, said an official of the hospital where he is admitted.
“Barman is responding well to medicines and his condition improved quite a bit on Saturday. He is being administered only a liquid diet because of the condition of his injury and his surgery,” said the official of Charnock Hospital.
Barman is admitted to the intensive care unit.
On Tuesday, a team from the gastro-surgery department of the private hospital performed a resection anastomosis, a surgical procedure by which the damaged portion of Barman’s intestine was removed and the rest was repaired.
On Tuesday morning, Barman had stepped into the deer enclosure of the park to feed the animals when a male spotted deer charged at him and gored him. He was with a colleague who he pushed aside but Barman failed to move out of harm’s way himself.
The deer’s antler pierced his small intestine and came out from the other end. There were two holes in the small intestine, a doctor said on Friday.
The herd of spotted deer is now housed in a separate enclosure at Harinalaya. Earlier, the spotted deer and barking deer had been kept in the same enclosure as a new enclosure is still under construction, a forester posted at the park said.
Food is being given to the spotted deer in a much more careful manner and foresters have been advised to give them fodder from outside the enclosure.
At Harinalaya, there are 36 spotted deer and a number of barking deer.