Well done for picking up on this problem. My daughter went through hell at her local primary school with both physical (bad enough to require hospitalisation) and mental bullying. She ended up with all sorts of physical manifestations of the stress she was under, and thankfully we had an aware GP and Paediatrician who helped to deal with this. Sadly the school was not entirely interested (until a new head teacher was appointed - by which time it was too late for my daughter) in dealing with the problem, and so we ended up changing schools. She is now happy and has loads of friends, but there is a lot of mental scarring, and probably always will be. The agony caused by bullying often goes unnoticed, and children will often hide it from their parents so any help and/or recognition comes as a great morale boost for the child. Your and the hospital's intervention will make a huge difference to this boy, one that will probably never be forgotten by him!