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29 March 2024

Infant saved after swallowing nail

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Saudi doctors saved a 15-day-old boy who was rushed to hospital with a metal nail stuck inside his throat, 'Al Riyadh' newspaper said on Monday.

The boy’s two-year-old sister pushed the nail inside her brother’s mouth, causing him partial suffocation while in his cot at their house in the northern town of Hafr Al Batin, the Arabic language daily said.

“The baby arrived in hospital with a bluish face as he could hardly breath.

Doctors quickly administered first aid to him and succeeded in pulling out the nail without surgical intervention,” it said. “His elated parents left the hospital with their baby a few hours later.”