Govt. doctors remove screw from toddler’s lung

Govt. doctors remove screw from toddler’s lung

The Hindu Bureau

TIRUCHI 20.12.2024

Doctors at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) in Tiruchi saved the life of a three-year-old boy by removing the screw of an anklet that he had accidentally swallowed. The toddler from a village in Perambalur district was immediately taken to a hospital in Iluppur on December 13.

When X-ray revealed that the screw was lodged in the patient’s bronchus (large airway that leads from the windpipe to a lung), he was referred to the Emergency Room of MGMGH. Under the guidance of S. Kumaravel, Dean, KAP Viswanatham Government Medical College, a team of doctors, led by Radhakrishnan, head, Department of Ear Nose Throat Surgery, removed the foreign object with the help of a rigid bronchoscope. The patient had recovered from the procedure, said the statement.

Doctors advised parents to keep small objects and other potentially hazardous material away from the reach of children.