SSH doctors extract safety pin from esophagus of 2-year-old

By Vikas Vaidya


TEARS of happiness rolled down the eyes of a poor couple from Madhya Pradesh when doctors at Super Specialty Hospital (SSH) successfully extracted an open safety pin stuck in the esophagus of their two-year-old child, on Tuesday.
Anushka Gaigwal, a two-year-old girl from district Mandla, Madhya Pradesh had swallowed the safety pin tied to her sweater on November 17. The poor parents -- Mahesh and Lata -- working as labourers immediately realised the danger and took her to Jabalpur’s Medical Hospital. Unfortunately the hospital did not have facilities so the child was brought to Paediatric Department at Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur. Doctors at the department recognised the gravity of the issue and decided to shift Anushka to Super Specialty Hospital.
On Tuesday, Dr Sudhir Gupta, Head of the Department of Gastroenterology at SSH checked her and immediately decided to perform a medical procedure to remove the pin that was open and could have caused grave danger to the girl.
“Fortunately in these three days, no injury was caused inside her body. Since the pin was stuck at a delicate part of the body we had to conduct the procedure very carefully. The pin was open and touch of its sharp edge inside the body would have led to bleeding. Considering all these aspects we kept the option of surgery open and for that, complete anaesthesia was adminisered to her,” Dr Gupta told ‘The Hitavada’.
Dr Gupta inserted double balloon endoscope inside esophagus and with the help of overtube, extracted the open safety pin. “Though the procedure did not last more than half an hour, we had to take care that the extraction was to be done without sharp edge of the pin touching the organ. We also were aware that girl was just two years old and her esophagus was very delicate. Finally we extracted the pin successfully,” he added.
The successful surgery made Dr Gupta quite emotional, which is rare. “There are very few occasions when I got exhausted mentally. This procedure was one of those. I got emotionally choked while performing the procedure and also after it. The parents were thanking me and I was expressing my gratitude towards the almighty,” said Dr Gupta.
Dr Amol Samarth, Dr Gaikwad, Dr Harit Kothari, Dr Sahil Parmar, Dr Vinit Gupta, Dr Imran Sheikh, from Anaesthesia department Dr Abhay Ganar, Dr Yogesh Jhanwar, Dr Zubir and Sonal Gattewar, Rekha Kene, Shashikala Dable, Simon Madewar from paramedical section accompanied Dr Gupta.

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