Boy, 3, speared through torso with 3-​foot iron rod, liver injured

THREE-​YEAR-​OLD Mehul Kumar is lucky to be alive after being speared through the torso with a 3-​foot (1 metre) iron rod.

The boy, from Jharkand, India, was rushed to the hos­pital after he impaled him­self falling off a ter­race and onto a rod last week.

The boy was fully con­scious when he arrived at the hos­pital. Doc­tors removed the rod during a 4-​hour oper­a­tion and said he had lost a lot of blood and suffered some injuries, but “nothing major.”

“Opening the abdomen, we dis­covered his liver was injured, the stomach was injured, but thank­fully, the spleen and pan­creas were safe,” said sur­geon Sandeep Aggarwal said. “The child was lucky that he did not suffer any major injury but yes he had sub­stan­tial injuries.”

Aggarwal praised Mehul for his strong willpower.

Mehul was playing with col­ours on the ter­race when he fell on an iron rod left standing on the under-​construction ter­race, his uncle Raja Kumar Vish­wakarma said. The rod pierced through his body and then broke, res­ulting in his fall from the roof.

In July last year, Supratim Dutta had sim­il­arly been impaled by a 5-​foot long (1.5 metre) iron bar that had pierced through his chest in New Delhi. Supratim was saved by the doc­tors of All India Insti­tute of Med­ical Sciences.

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