Aga Khan Hospital doctors have successfully removed a coin that had been stuck in a three-and-a-half-year-old boy’s throat for two weeks.
According to the Nation, the boy, Samson Kaingu, swallowed the coin while playing with his fellow students at a school in Bamburi, Mombasa.
A team of doctors at Aga Khan Hospital on Friday morning managed to conduct a successful operation to remove the coin.
The operation to rescue the boy’s life was undertaken after a story was published by the daily.
The publication saw well-wishers from different parts of the country as well as overseas pledge support for the boy.
Aga Khan Hospital acting Medical Director Twahir Ahmed said the doctors removed the coin through a medical procedure known as endoscopy.
He added that the process took several hours before the coin was removed.
“It took a little bit of time to remove it because it was in the upper part of the food pipe. It is a foreign body and it may have caused erosion,” he said, as quoted by the daily.