UP Boy Swallows 65 Objects, Including Batteries, Razor Blade, Screws; Dies During Surgery

The swallowed objects included batteries, chains, razor blade fragments and screws. The doctors found the objects in his stomach and said that the boy died of intestinal infection.

The boy underwent operation in New Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. (For representation)

Source : PTI

A 14-year-old boy from Hathras died at a hospital in Delhi during surgery while the doctors tried to remove 65 objects, including batteries and razor blades from his stomach. 

The boy succumbed hours after the complex medical procedure, which lasted for around five hours, where a team of doctors at New Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital removed the objects the boy had swallowed in the past, a report in the Times of India said. 

The swallowed objects included batteries, chains, razor blade fragments and screws. The doctors found the objects in his stomach and said that the boy died of intestinal infection, the report said. 

“Aditya Sharma was brought to Safdarjung Hospital where doctors found all those objects in his stomach. He died due to an intestinal infection,” an official from the Safdarjung Hospital reportedly said.

Aditya's father, Sanchet Sharma, said that his son complained of shortness of breath and discomfort last month after which he was taken to a hospital in Agra.  

The parents took the boy to medical facilities in Jaipur, Aligarh, Noida and Delhi in the following weeks to get a proper diagnosis and treatment.

"But Aditya died on the night of Oct 28. All of this happened within a month... He never had any physical or mental ailments in the past," the father, who works as a medical representative at a pharmaceutical company in Hathras, said.

Aditya was first taken to Agra and then to a hospital in Jaipur, where the doctors conducted scans and tests. When his breathing issues resurfaced, his parents took him to Aligarh.

A CT scan was conducted and a "nasal blockage" was found, which was successfully removed by the doctors. His parents said that despite the surgery, he started developing abdominal pain.

After an extensive ultrasound test in Aligarh on Oct 26, the doctors found 19 objects stuck inside Aditya's stomach. 

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

He was finally brought to the Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital, where a scan showed 65 objects in the boy's stomach. Meanwhile, the patient's heartbeat reached up to 280 per minute, according to the parents.