Child Answered Phone While It Was Charging. Explosion Injured Him.

 The boy suffered severe burns after the mobile phone exploded. (Representational image)

 A nine-year-old boy suffered severe burns and his vision was affected when a mobile phone exploded while he answered a call when the phone was getting charged. A class four student, Dhanush attended the call at his home at Maduranthakam near Chennai when the mobile phone was getting charged on January 29 night, hospital authorities said. No sooner had he attended the call, it exploded, resulting in severe burns on his right hand, face and eyes. The parents took the boy to the Chengalpattu Government Hospital and later to Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital for treatment.


Doctors said the boy had suffered first and second degree burns on his hand and face. Subsequently, he was admitted to the Government Ophthalmic Hospital. While his right eye's cornea was damaged, the globe of the left eye was ruptured. "The intensity of the blast not only damaged his right cornea it also ruptured the globe of his left eye, the right hand that was used by the boy to hold the phone suffered serious burns," Director, Regional Institute of Ophthmaology and Government Ophthamic Hospital, Dr Waheeda Nazir told PTI. She said a patch was grafted from a cadaver donor cornea on the boy's right eye and the left eye was sutured to shape up the globe. "It (blast) also led to formation of cataract on his right eye, he is now doing fine, he would have to be in hospital for three more weeks," she said to a query. The boy's vision on his left eye now extends between four to five metres and as regards right eye, she said there are "more (procedures) to be carried out, we can comment on it only later."