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Merge 104.8 | 19 July 2020
A Saudi Arabian boy lost his life after a swab broke in his nasal cavity while getting tested for COVID-19, according to Al Arabiya.
The one-and-half-year-old Saudi toddler had a fever and was taken to Shaqra General Hospital in central Saudi Arabia by his parents.
Medical staff tested the boy for COVID-19. However, the swab broke inside the child’s nose and doctors had to start an operation to extract it.
Local media reported that when the child woke up following the surgery, his mother repeatedly asked medical staff to check up on her son but a doctor never arrived.
Later, the child fainted and lost consciousness, according to Arabic news site RT Online.
The uncle said X-rays showed a blockage in the child’s airway.
As his condition was deteriorated, the child was in the process of being transferred to a specialist hospital in Riyadh when he was pronounced dead before the arrival of an ambulance.
Sources: Al Arabiya, RT Online
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