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Needles removed from organs of 2 toddlers living near each other
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TWO toddlers have had surgery after needles were found stuck in their bodies within a week of each other in Danyang city in east China’s Jiangsu Province, local Modern Express Daily reported today.
The boys’ organs were penetrated and they were seriously injured by the needles, but are recovering from the ordeal.
Authorities said the boys’ families, who live only 4 or 5 kilometers apart, do not know each other. Police are trying to determine if there’s any connection.
What makes the case even more odd is that a family who lives nearby also found a needle in their infant daughter’s quilted trousers only two days after the latest of the two boys was hospitalized, said the report. The girl was not reportedly hurt by the needle.
In the latest injury case, doctors at Changzhou Children’s Hospital pulled a 3.5-centimeter-long needle from the body of a 16-month-old boy named Shuo Shuo, whose left kidney was pierced. The boy was transferred to a ward yesterday from intensive care unit after surgery.
The boy was sent to the hospital last Friday evening when his crying caught the family’s attention. His mother noticed a reddish nub near Shuo Shuo’s back, with a visible puncture wound.
It was a rare case in that the needle had penetrate the boy’s kidney and may have been inserted by someone, according to a pediatrician surnamed Huang.
The family had just moved to the neighborhood about a month ago.
An earlier injury involving a needle was reported on January 7 and is being investigated. In that case, a 14-month-old boy had surgery to pull out a five-centimeter-long needle which had pierced his lung.
The families of both boys are migrants.
A case involving needle insertion made headlines in August when a father in Heilongjiang Province stuck four needles into the body of his two-month-old baby girl in two incidents in two weeks.
The father, who was detained on charges of attempted murder, confessed that he was driven by a suspicion that the baby was not his child, police said. The report said he had fertility problems and had undergone treatment and his wife became pregnant.
A DNA test has since confirmed the man is the biological father of the girl. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to kill his daughter in late December.
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