Doctors have removed this 15-centimetre leach from the windpipe of a five-year-old girl. The incident took place when the girl, who has not been named, was admitted to the Paediatrics Department of Wenshan People's Hospital on Monday 30th May. Her family had at first thought that she was suffering from…
This four-year-old boy has died in hospital following a four-day battle for his life after he ate a piece of cake and choked when it blocked his windpipe, causing him to fall unconscious. The incident took place in the city of Nizip, which is located in Gaziantep Province in south-eastern…
Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Doctors have removed this rusty drawing pin from a boy’s windpipe after he inhaled it into his trachea one month earlier and did not tell his parents. The 11-year-old named as Liu Yang is a primary school pupil from the county of Nayong in…
Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This single peanut nearly proved fatal to this one-year-old boy after he breathed the snack into his windpipe and fainted in a freak accident. The toddler from the city of Shenzhen in South China’s Guangdong Province was taken to Shenzhen Children’s…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This is the moment medics spot a two-inch leech in the windpipe of a man with a sore throat after the creepy crawly spent weeks feasting on the patient's blood. The parasite had been inhabiting his trachea and feeding on his blood for…
