New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Doctors at a hospital in Faridabad have saved the life of a 16-year-old girl after she accidentally consumed a corrosive toilet-cleaning chemical that completely destroyed her stomach, forcing surgeons to remove it in an emergency.

The rare, life-saving surgeries were performed by world-renowned laparoscopic and robotic surgeon Dr Shailesh Puntambekar, along with Dr Arjun Goel, Senior Consultant and Head of General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, and their team at Sarvodaya Hospital.

The patient, Jyoti (16), mistakenly drank the chemical after believing it to be water. She was rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal burning and repeated vomiting. Doctors diagnosed her with corrosive poisoning, a dangerous medi...