A doctor from Hoan My Da Nang checks a little girl after an endoscopy removing a coin from her stomach. Photo courtesy Hoan My Da Nang Hospital

Dr Dang Phuc Hoan My-Da Nang Hospital said on Tuesday that a team of doctors had successfully removed the coin via an endoscopy within 30 minutes of the girl arriving in the hospital on Monday.

He said the patient was lucky as the coin had not reached the intestine, even though the patient had the coin and food in her stomach for 14 hours.

An image of a coin in the stomach of a little girl in Da Nang City. Photo courtesy Hoan My Da Nang Hospital

He warned that parents should not leave children to play with coins or small toys, and they should be taken to the hospital as soon as possible if they swallow toys.

In May, doctors from the hospital also helped remove a toothpick from a woman’s anus after she had swallowed it while sleeping.  VNS

Doctors remove toothpick from female patient's anus

Doctors from Hoan My-Da Nang Hospital have successful removed a toothpick from a patient’s anus after she swallowed while sleeping.