New Delhi: A 14-year-old boy was operated upon by Safdarjung Hospital doctors in Delhi for over five hours. They removed almost 65 objects, which included batteries, razor blade fragments, screws and chains from the teen’s stomach. The boy, who hailed from Hathras in UP, passed away hours after the complicated surgery, a Times of India report said.
‘Must have swallowed them in the past’
A hospital official was quoted as saying by TOI that the boy Aditya Sharma was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital where the doctors detected those objects in his stomach and he died because of an intestinal infection. The official added that the boy must have swallowed all those objects in the past.
According to the boy’s father Sanchet Sharma, who is a medical representative at a pharma firm in Hathras, his child complained of shortness of breath and discomfort on October 13, after which he was taken to a hospital in Agra. The boy’s parents showed him at various medical facilities in Jaipur, Noida, Aligarh and Delhi in the next two weeks. They were hoping that the doctors will properly diagnose the ailment and treat him.
However, his father said, Aditya passed away on the night of October 28. He added that everything happened within a month… Aditya did not have any physical or mental ailments in the past, Sharma said.
Aditya was the only son of Sharma family. When they visited the Agra hospital, the doctors referred Aditya, a Class 9 student, to a hospital in Jaipur. At the Jaipur hospital, scans and tests were carried out and they returned to UP on October 19. After two days, the boy started feeling breathless and was unable to inhale properly, when the parents rushed him to a hospital in Aligarh. At the Aligarh medical facility, a CT scan detected a “nasal blockage”, which the doctors removed successfully, Sharma said.
He started having abdominal pain
After this, the boy started complaining of abdominal pain. On October 26, an extensive ultrasound test in Aligarh detected that there were as many as 19 objects lodged inside his stomach. The family took him to a private hospital in Noida immediately. Sharma said that in Noida, doctors found 42 objects in the stomach of Aditya and they said it needed urgent medical attention. The boy was then taken to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, where a scan found as many as 65 objects, and Aditya’s “heart beat raced up to 280 per minute”, according to the family. Hours after the gruelling surgery, the boy breathed his last.
