The 14-year-old boy from Hathras must have swallowed 65 objects, including razor blade fragments and batteries, his family said.
According to Sanchet Sharma, his son’s father, who himself is a medical representative at a pharma company in Hathras, complained of breathing problems on October 13, after which he was taken to an Agra hospital.
As TOI reported, the boy’s parents took him to four cities, including Jaipur, Aligarh, Noida, and Delhi, in search of the cure for the son’s disease, but their son died on the night of October 28.
“All of this happened within a month… He never had any physical or mental ailments in the past,” the father was quoted as saying in the TOI report.
How did the disease come to the fore?
After the parents took Aditya to Agra, he was referred to a Jaipur hospital, where some medical tests and scans were conducted. They returned to Uttar Pradesh on October 19.
But that did not take too long; soon, Aditya began having breathing problems, and his parents took him to a hospital in Aligarh where he had a CT scan, “nasal blockage”, said Sharma, quoting TOI.
After the son felt abdominal pain, an intensive ultrasound test was conducted on him in Aligarh. On October 26, it was found that there were 19 objects present inside his stomach.
“He was referred to a private hospital in Noida immediately, and we took him there on the same day. In Noida, doctors found 42 objects in the stomach and called for urgent medical attention,” the father said.
