In fact, on Sunday, a family reached the emergency of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital of Rohini with a three -year -old child. Dr. Pankaj Kumar, Associate Professor of ENT Department, investigated and said that the child has swallowed something from outside. When X-ray was done, it showed the locket stuck in it. However, the child was normal. The doctor said that the locket was trapped in the food pipe in such a way that he was not going down. Many times X-rays were done, an attempt was made to know whether the locket is going down. Waited for 10 hours, when this did not happen, it was planned to remove the locket by surgery.
Dr. Pankaj said that it was necessary to faint for surgery, the child was to be given General Anesthesia. So the child was kept hungry for 6 hours and surgery was done on Monday morning. Esophagoscopy is a medical process, through which the locket was removed from the child’s stomach. It took 45 minutes. The doctor said that now the child is fine and out of danger. He said that almost one or two such cases come almost every day. It contains the most coin swallowing cases, followed by swallowing battery.