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Whistle blower

In a two-minute endoscopic procedure, a team of doctors from the Government General Hospital in Chennai removed a whistle which was stuck in the throat of a 14-year-old boy for about two years. Balaji, was admitted to the hospital recently with complaints of frequent throat infection, choking and bleeding. About two years ago, the boy was taken to a doctor after he swallowed a whistle he was playing with. But the doctor sent him away, saying it would be passed out of the b ody. However, recently he had a feeling of suffocation. When the ENT specialist examined him he found there was something stuck in his throat! Under a short-term anaesthesia doctors removed the whistle from the boy’s throat.

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