New Delhi: A year-and-half old baby girl whose eye was pierced with a knitting needle was miraculously saved after doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi performed a complicated surgery on her.
The doctors at the Jai Prakash Narayan Trauma Centre at AIIMS conducted a surgery on the baby Kumkum who accidentally fell off bed onto her mother’s knitting needles which pierced her eye. The needle had fractured the roof of the orbit of the eye and entered the frontal lobe of the brain.
The most complicated thing about the case was the age of the patient.
“It is very difficult to operate on such a small baby. She was very irritable and could have caused further harm to herself,” says Chief of Trauma Centre AIIMS.
The team of the doctors who operated on this infant said that it was a complicated surgery and the baby ran the risk of blindness among other side effects.
“We ran the risk of blindness, brain hemorrhage and CSF leak which is the liquid inside the brain,” says Assistant Professor Neurosurgery AIIMS Dr Deepak Gupta.
The surgery was conducted successfully on December 12 and Kumkum is now recovering in the ICU. Doctors are hopeful that she will fully recover within a fortnight.
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