Kolkata: Doctors remove nine needles from 14-year-old girl's throat

Days ago, Aparupa Biswas, a class-VIII student of Krishnanagar Akshay Vidyapith Girls' High School in Nadia district of West Bengal, complained of severe throat ache and she was rushed to Krishnanagar Sadar District Hospital where doctors discovered the presence of at least nine needles inside her throat and had referred her to Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

The girl was admitted in NRS Medical College and Hospital on Monday and a team of seven specialist doctors removed all nine needles from her throat in a three-hour-long operation on Tuesday.

"All the nine needles, presence of which had been confirmed following a x-ray, were successfully removed from the girl's throat and she is doing well now," a senior doctor of the medical team told IBNS.

"Firstly we suspected that she had swallowed the needles, but after examining those positions, it's confirmed that those needles were pierced into her throat from outside," the doctor said.

Sources in the hospital said that the case has been forwarded to the psychiatric department of the hospital to know how those needles were pierced into her throat.

"Family members of the girls told us that they noticed a change in the behaviour of the 14-year-old after the death of her brother three years ago. Following the incident, the girl had started isolating herself as well as speaking less," a doctor said.

"Our psychiatrists will talk to her to know how the incident happened," he added.

Meanwhile, family members of the eighth standard student claimed that they had know idea about the matter.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)