A thoracic child from whose body, during a complex surgical operation, doctors removed 13 steel needles, died on Wednesday in the intensive care unit of the Republican Scientific Center for Emergency Medical Care in the capital of Uzbekistan. About this on Wednesday wrote on its page in Facebook director of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights Sayar Khodjayev.

"The 11-month-old baby could not survive after the operation to extract needles from his body," Khodjaeva said..

Earlier it became known that an 11-month-old child with a temperature and started pneumonia from the Fergana region was taken to RSCEMP. At survey the doctor recommended to make a roentgen during which time it was found out, that in a body of the kid there are 16 metal needles. Analyzes showed that they are there for about one and a half months, notes ca-news.

org During the operation, which lasted nine hours from the body of the baby extracted 13 needles, the remaining doctors planned to remove during the next surgery. The head of the children's department of RSCEMP, Professor Khabibulla Akimov, is sure that the child could not swallow 16 needles himself, as the X-ray showed that the needles were in different parts of the body. According to him, "the needles were inserted by a stranger".

According to local media reports, a criminal case has been opened.