Boy’s finger gets stuck in fidget spinner
KOTA KINABALU: A five-year-old boy in Sabah’s Kota Belud district had to endure pain for five hours after his middle finger got stuck in a fidget spinner.
Medical personnel at the Kota Belud hospital had to call in the Fire and Rescue Services Department to cut off the spinner from Mohd Alfath Izwan Mohd Rosdi’s finger.
“He was in pain and his finger was swelling. There was no way we could take it out,” said his mother Maryati Datu Jamalin from Kampung Jawi Jawi.
Maryati said her son was playing with the popular toy, belonging to his elder brother at home, before falling asleep on a chair in the living room after lunch on Sunday.
“At first I saw him asleep while holding the spinner. I did not notice whether the finger was lodged inside the spinner then.
“But when he woke up around 3.30pm, he started crying in pain as his middle finger was stuck in the device.
“I tried different ways to pull out the spinner from his finger, including using oil and soap.
“I even tried to break the spinner but I could not,” Maryati said, adding that the child’s finger began to swell.
Maryati immediately rushed him to the district hospital emergency unit and firemen were called in to help.
The firemen, she said, used a keyhole saw to finally cut open the spinner safely at 7pm.
The mother of four sons said her seven-year-old son bought the fidget at school.
At first I saw him asleep while holding the spinner. I did not notice whether the finger was lodged inside the spinner then.
Maryati Datu Jamalin