Dubai: Some quick thinking on the part of doctors in Dubai helped save the life of a one-year old child who went into a septic shock after having ingested eight small magnetic balls that caused serious damage to her bowels.
It took three surgeries and a two-month stay at the Medcare Women and Children's Hospital, Dubai, for Dr Mazen Yaser Salowm, specialist paediatric surgeon, and Dr Dima Tarsha, specialist paediatrician, to save the child in end-stage septic shock. Both the doctors have cautioned parents to be extra vigilant about the kind of toys given to infants. In this case, the parents were not even aware that the child had access to the magnetic balls and had ingested them over a period of a few days. They were worried why their child was so sick and brought her to the Emergency section of the hospital.