A toy whistle has been removed from a child's lung.
The three-inch soft toy whistle was removed from a child who sought treatment today at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH), Dr. Mohamed Ali tweeted.
The internal medicine doctor at IGMH did not reveal the age of the child, who appeared to have inhaled the whistle.
"Apparently he/she was trying to impress the younger child by producing sound by keeping the whistle between the lips," Dr. Mohamed Ali tweeted, warning that it was unsafe to keep objects in the mouth or between the lips as it might be inhaled into the lungs.
A special team of doctors from IGMH's internal medicine and pediatrics departments performed the operation to remove the soft toy from the child's right lung.
Items such as burqa pins and supari have been removed from the lungs in such operations performed at IGMH in the past.
