In a heartbreaking event, a 14-year-old boy named Aditya Sharma passed away just hours after undergoing a nearly five-hour surgery at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, where medical professionals extracted 65 foreign objects from his stomach. The items included batteries, screws and razor blade fragments. An official indicated that he likely ingested the objects earlier.
Aditya, a Standard 9 student from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, was reported to have died due to an intestinal infection. His father, Sanchet Sharma, a medical representative, stated that Aditya had complained of breathing problems on October 13, prompting them to take him to a hospital in Agra, where he was sent to a hospital in Jaipur.
In their search for answers, the family visited hospitals in four cities— Jaipur, Aligarh, and Noida and Delhi. After returning home from Jaipur on October 19, Aditya’s breathing issues returned, leading his parents to take him to a hospital in Aligarh. A CT scan there revealed a nasal blockage, which was successfully treated.
However, shortly afterward, he began to suffer from severe abdominal pain. An ultrasound on October 26 revealed 19 foreign objects lodged in his stomach, leading to an urgent referral to a private hospital in Noida.
At the Noida facility, doctors identified an additional 42 objects. Following this, Aditya was transferred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, where a scan confirmed a total of 65 objects in his stomach. His heart rate had also skyrocketed to 280 beats per minute prompting doctors to perform surgery.
Despite a lengthy surgery that lasted several hours, where doctors removed many of the objects, complications arose shortly after. Aditya continued to experience abdominal pain, leading to the removal of three additional objects. Sadly, he passed away the following day due to an infection in the intestines, as indicated by the postmortem report.
Sanchet Sharma expressed his heartbreak, noting that all of this transpired within a month and that his son had no prior health issues.
(Input from various sources)
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