In rare surgery, doctors remove whistle stuck for 11 months inside lungs of 12-year-old
The boy was taken to the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery where doctors under Prof Arunabha Sengupta operated on him on Thursday.;
Kolkata: In a rare surgery doctors at the state-run SSKM Hospital here removed from the lungs of a 12-year-old boy a small plastic whistle which he had accidentally swallowed and managed to survive with for 11 months, a senior doctor said on Friday.
Raihan Laskar, a resident of Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district, had accidentally swallowed the plastic whistle in January while eating potato chips, doctors at the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in SSKM Hospital said.
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"After that whenever the boy tried to open his mouth the shrill sound of the whistle would emnate. His parents did not initially realise the difficulty he was facing, but when he went to a nearby pond they found that Raihan could not remain under water like before for even a minute. He was facing trouble and complained of chest pain and breathing problem," a senior doctor of the hospital said.
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