A team of doctors in a private hospital in Agra put in two hours to extricate the head of a toddler that was stuck inside a pressure cooker. The boy, one-and-half-years-old, was playing at his maternal uncle’s house in the city on Saturday when he got his head stuck inside the cooker, the family said. 

The doctors, finally, had to beckon a mechanic who arrived with a grinder machine and helped the team in cutting the utensil. 

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The family members tried to extricate the head at home but failed. They then took the boy to SM Charitable Hospital where Dr Farhat Khan and his team were able to save child after two hours of painstaking efforts.

“The cooker was cut with the help of a grinder while following all safety norms… We were able to extricate the child safely,” Dr Khan said.

The family members expressed gratitude to the team for saving the child.

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“We express our sincere thanks to the team of doctors. It’s because of their efforts that the child was saved,” said a family member.

The parents of the child said they did not know how the boy’s head got stuck in the pressure cooker. The doctors, first gave emergency medical treatment to the child, who had sustained superficial wounds when his parents attempted to pull off the pressure cooker, India Today reports. The operation was done without causing any further injuries to the child’s head. The cooker was cut open with a glider machine and the boy was handed over to his parents. 

As per reports, the operation and treatment of the child was done free of cost by the hospital.