Scissor blade removed from boy’s head

23 January 2014 12:25 am Views - 5402

A pair of scissors stuck in the head of a 15-year-old boy who was admitted to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, was removed by doctors through surgery yesterday.

The scissor blade had penetrated the head of P. G. Tharindu Tharaka, a Grade VII student of Kudabolana College, Ambalanthota.

According to hospital sources, the student had got into a quarrel with his younger brother, when he was just about to have his lunch after returning home from school. The younger brother who lost his temper, had grabbed the pair of scissors lying near the sewing machine and jabbed his elder brother in the head, causing severe injuries.

Their shocked mother had rushed the injured child to the closest hospital at Ambalantota. The doctors had thereafter transferred the boy to the Karapitiya Hospital with the scissors intact.

The team of doctors led by neurosurgeons Dr.  Nishantha Gunasekara and Dr. Chandana Nanayakkara promptly and deftly removed the scissors during an operation which lasted about 30 minutes, and the child was now recovering.

The scissors had penetrated about 5 mm into the skull almost up to the brain, with more than 1cm having entered the area where blood of the brain is collected.
The doctors were of the opinion that bringing the injured child to hospital without any attempts to retrieve the scissors had minimised the danger caused to the child.(Nimal Algewatte )