Chopstick removed from boy's brain

Fourteen-month-old Li Jingchao, shown in the arms of Dr Sun Wei at the Bo Ai Hospital in Beijing, was playing with the chopsticks when he fell and began crying.

Because local hospitals in Shandong did not have the technology to remove the chopstick safely, the baby's parents travelled 10 hours north by car to Beijing.

The boy arrived with a high fever and an irregular heartbeat and neurosurgeons were relieved that the removal of the chopstick, which was lodged four millimetres into his brain, caused little internal haemorrhaging once removed.