Cuban boy who stabbed himself in the abdomen with a harpoon speaks: "I made that shotgun"

HeCuban teenager who accidentally stuck a harpoon in his abdomen in Camagüey He revealed that it was he who made the shotgun with which he seriously injured himself.

"I made that shotgun to fish in the rivers and that, I started taking photos of it there with my partner and when we went to move it from position it went off and hit me. They quickly brought me here to the hospital, thereThey attended to me quickly and took me to the living room"Henry Cristian Zamora Cardoso toldTV Camagüey.

The event happened on February 29.

Henry, 13 years old, was treated urgently at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Center by a multidisciplinary team, in which some of its members had never faced an intervention of this type.

"It is an injury - fortunately - that is rare in pediatric surgery and very complex," said Dr. Dayannelis Aguilar Atanay, second-degree specialist in pediatric surgery.

"We found ourselves with a complex vascular injury and an intestinal injury, to which we are a little more accustomed. The vascular injury is an injury that in fact alone can cause the death of the patient, it is a serious injury, and we managed to control it." of the hemorrhage in the first minutes," he explained.

After the operation, which lasted just over four hours, the patient's hemodynamics were stabilized and in just 32 hours the doctors were able to extubate him.

"With hemoglobin that is sustained and stable, which has allowed us today [March 8] to report him from care and coordinate his transfer to intermediate care with a satisfactory evolution," said angiologist Raúl Romay Buitrago.

For his part, Daimel Rodríguez Lugones, head of the Anesthesiology service, praised the child for cooperating with the anesthesia interview and for not moving the foreign object in his body, which avoided further complications.

Today Henry Cristian continues to recover and will soon return to his normal life.

The large scar on his abdomen will always remind him of when he placed the harpoon on a streetlight to take a photo, and the device went off by itself.

"It had never been shot!" he said, adding that after this ordeal he will never touch one again.