Doctors find coins, blades, needles in man’s stomach
New Delhi : Doctors in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in a rare surgery removed iron objects including coins and needles weighing around five kg from a man’s stomach, health officials said Monday.
The surgery was performed by a team of six doctors in Rewa district at state-run Sanjay Gandhi Medical College and hospital.
“Doctors here during a surgery removed a chain, 263 coins, four needles and 12 shaving blades, besides shreds of glass, weighing five kg, from stomach of a man identified as 32-year-old Mohammed Maqsood,” a health official said. “The man is currently in hospital under observation.”
Maqsood was hospitalised on Nov. 18 in the hospital after he complained of a stomach pain.
Doctors told media x-ray and several other tests helped them to identify the cause behind Maqsood’s stomachache.
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