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The 14-year-old boy from Hathras must have swallowed 65 objects, including razor blade fragments, and batteries, his family said.

A 14-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh died hours after undergoing a massive nearly five-hour-long surgery at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital where the doctors removed nearly 65 objects from his stomach including batteries, razor blade fragments and screws, Times of India reported on Sunday.

The boy, identified as Aditya Sharma who was a Standard 9 student, hailed from Hathras and was shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital where he died due to intestinal infection, TOI quoted an official as saying, adding that the child must have swallowed all of these objects in the past.

What did the family of the deceased say?

According to the boy’s father, Sanchet Sharma, who himself is a medical representative at a pharma company in Hathras, his son complained of breathing problems on October 13 after which he was taken to an Agra hospital.
 

According to the TOI report, the boy’s parents took him to four cities, including Jaipur, Aligarh, Noida, and Delhi, searching for the cure for the son’s disease, however, 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, after which they returned to Uttar Pradesh on October 19.

It didn’t take long before Aditya’s problems of breathing resurfaced, prompting his parents to rush him to a hospital in Aligarh where a CT scan revealed that he had a “nasal blockage" which was successfully removed by the doctors, TOI quoted Sharma as saying.
 

After the son started feeling abdominal pain, an extensive ultrasound test was conducted in Aligarh was it was discovered on October 26 that 19 objects were 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," the father said.
 

Aditya was shifted to Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital thereafter, where a scan identified a “total of 65 objects".

The boy’s heartbeat was also recorded at 280 per minute, according to the family.