Lucknow, May 18 -- Doctors at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) successfully removed a long-standing foreign body lodged in the airway of a 15-month-old child from Jaunpur district, bringing relief after nearly three weeks of persistent cough, fever and breathing distress.

According to doctors from the department of paediatric surgical superspecialities, the child was initially treated elsewhere with medicines for respiratory infection. However, the symptoms failed to subside as the actual cause - a foreign object stuck in the left main bronchus - remained undiagnosed.

After the child was referred to SGPGIMS, a detailed clinical evaluation and imaging raised suspicion of an airway foreign body. The m...