A 11-month-old girl child whose life was in danger following accidental ingestion of two safety pins 11 days back, was rescued by a city-based gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist recently.

The baby, hailing from Udgir, while playing, had accidentally swallowed two safety pins on June 14. On noticing the incident, the girl's mother took her to a local hospital, where she was advised surgery after a CT scan. But it proved useless. Later, she approached Dr Nitin Joshi at Nanded who found that one of the pins had passed out through stools but another was lodged in the intestine. Dr Joshi removed another safety pin from the intestine using a special technique of rat-tooth forcep within one-and-a-half minute and rescued the girl. She was discharged from hospital in two hours.