AJMER: An air gun pellet that a man fired to drive street dogs away ricocheted off a wall and pierced the lungs of his 5-year-old grandson.
Doctors at JLN Hospital performed a 4-hour surgery to save the boy and hospital authorities Wednesday briefed the media about the incident.
They said the child was admitted to JLN Hospital on Jan 25 in critical condition in the emergency unit. “The air gun pellet pierced the lungs and went into his stomach. Because of the wound in the lungs, air filled in it, and he was struggling to breathe,” said Anil Samariya, principal of JLN Medical College.
He added that it was not possible to determine how many parts of the inner body the shot had affected. “We decided on an immediate operation,” said Garima Arora, paediatric surgeon.
She added, “We used ICD to create a vacuum in the lungs so that the boy could breathe, and when we started the operation, we found that the shot had damaged the liver, pancreas, gall bladder, and small intestine, and the stomach was full of blood.”
She said the pellet was found in the first part of the small intestine and was taken out. To stop the blood coming out from the liver, the gall bladder was removed from the stomach. “A team of doctors worked hard for four hours to save the boy, and for five days the boy was under supervision of specialist doctors and is recovering, said Samariya.
