It is not without reason that moms tell their kids to keep away from the kitchen. The case of 3 year-old Shivam, who got his head stuck in a pressure cooker while playing, underlines this. It took two hours of painstaking effort by a team of 12 doctors to release the child from the cooker, with the help of equipment like saw and screwdrivers.
Shivam, a resident of Rani Bagh in north Delhi, was playing with the pressure cooker on Monday evening when his head got stuck inside, sources said.
When all efforts failed, his parents took him to a nearby clinic. "Even doctors at the clinic failed to take his head out. Due to constant pulling, my son underwent tremendous pain. There were cuts on his eyelids and in the forehead area," said Sanjay, the child's father. The parents then took the child to Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital in Pitampura where the doctors had to cut the utensil.
"There was local swelling in the forehead and the eyelids and the child was crying constantly. We first thought of giving him anesthesia and operating on him. But, it did not work out. So, a group of doctors were called and with the help of screw drivers and large cutters the metal object was removed," said Dr Sameer Chikara, who was part of the team.
He said that the sides of the cooker had to be stuffed with cotton so that the child doesn't get hurt. Doctors said that the pressure cooker was local made and its edges was sharper than usual. Because of this, the child's head must have easily slipped inside and there was difficulty in pulling it out.
"Shivam's case should serve as a lesson for parents in future. They should not allow children to get into the kitchen and play with metal objects like these that can hurt them," said a senior hospital official.
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