‘Razor blade parts, batteries, screws’: Teenager with 65 items in stomach dies after surgery

Last update:November 3, 2024, 14:20 CEST

His family says the 14-year-old boy from Hathras must have swallowed 65 objects, including razor blade fragments and batteries.

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A 14-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh died hours after undergoing an extensive, nearly five-hour surgery at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, during which doctors removed nearly 65 objects from his stomach, including batteries, razor blade fragments and screws. India times reported on Sunday.

The boy, identified as Aditya Sharma, who was a Standard 9 student, hailed from Hathras and was shifted to Safdarjung Hospital, where he died of an intestinal infection. TOI – she quoted the official as saying, adding that the child must have swallowed all these objects in the past.

What did the deceased’s family say?

According to the boy’s father, Sanchet Sharma, who is himself a medical representative of a pharmaceutical company in Hathras, his son complained of breathing problems on October 13 after which he was taken to a hospital in Agra.

According to TOI Reports say that the boy’s parents took him to four cities including Jaipur, Aligarh, Noida and Delhi in search of a cure for their son’s disease, but their son died on the night of October 28.

“All this happened within a month… He has never had any physical or mental ailments in the past,” the father is quoted as saying in the diary TOI report.

How did the disease come to the fore?

After Aditya’s parents took him to Agra, he was referred to a hospital in Jaipur for some medical tests and a CT scan, after which they returned to Uttar Pradesh on October 19.

It wasn’t long before Aditya’s breathing problems returned, prompting his parents to rush him to a hospital in Aligarh, where a CT scan showed he had a “nasal blockage”, which doctors successfully removed. TOI he quoted Sharma as saying.

When the son started experiencing abdominal pain, an extensive ultrasound examination was carried out in Aligarh, during which it was discovered on October 26 that 19 objects were stuck in his stomach.

“He was immediately referred to a private hospital in Noida, where we took him the same day. In Noida, doctors found 42 objects in the stomach and called for urgent medical help,” the father said.

Aditya was then shifted to Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital, where a “total of 65 objects” were identified during scanning.

The boy’s heart rate was also 280 per minute, according to his family.