Agra: A 14-year-old boy from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, passed away just hours after undergoing a complex and grueling surgery at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. During the nearly five-hour procedure, doctors removed approximately 65 foreign objects from his stomach, including batteries, chains, razor blade fragments, and screws.
“Aditya Sharma was brought to Safdarjung Hospital where doctors found all those objects in his stomach. He died due to an intestinal infection. He must have swallowed these objects in the past," said an official at the Safdarjung Hospital.
According to Times of India, his father Sanchet Sharma, a medical representative at a pharma firm in Hathras, said Aditya started complaining of shortness of breath and discomfort on Oct 13, prompting a visit to a hospital in Agra. His parents, in the next two weeks, took him to medical facilities in four cities — Jaipur, Aligarh, Noida and Delhi — with the hope of a proper diagnosis and cure. “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,” said Sharma, who lives in Ratnagarbha colony.
Aditya was Sharma's only son. Following a visit to a hospital in Agra, the Class 9 student was referred to a hospital in Jaipur, where he underwent scans and tests before returning to UP on October 19. Two days later, Aditya began experiencing breathing difficulties again, prompting his parents to rush him to a hospital in Aligarh. There, a CT scan revealed a "nasal blockage," which doctors successfully removed, according to Sharma.
“However, Aditya started having abdominal pain and on Oct 26 after an extensive ultrasound test in Aligarh, it was found that there were 19 objects stuck inside his 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,” he added, as reported by TOI.
Aditya was later moved to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, where a scan identified a “total of 65 objects”, and the boy’s “heart beat raced up to 280 per minute”, the family said.