Odisha: MKCG Doctors surgically remove steel glass from man's rectum

Behrampur: Doctors at a government-run hospital in Odisha's Berhampur district have successfully removed a steel glass from a man's rectum through surgery.

The glass, around 8 cm in diameter and 15 cm long, was allegedly inserted there about 10 days ago by the man's friends in drunken condition after a booze party at Surat in Gujarat, where there is a liquor prohibition.

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He experienced acute stomach pain, but he did not reveal it to anyone. Instead of undergoing treatment in Surat, where he worked at a textile mill, he preferred to return to his native place Balipadar in Buguda block, around 140 km southwest of Bhubaneswar. 

The 45-year-old's stomach started swelling, and he could not defecate since the incident. Worried about his condition, his family members rushed him to MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur city last Friday. 

During the consultation, the patient did not say that the glass was inside his rectum (sigmoid colon) until an X-ray revealed so, surgery department assistant professor Sanjit Nayak said.

"We formed a team of doctors to retrieve the glass by conducting a surgery on the same day as his condition was serious," said Charan Panda, professor in the surgery department. Initially, the surgeons tried to remove the glass through the anus. Later, they decided to conduct a laparotomy, an abdominal incision, by colostomy because of the chances of infection due to a possible rapture in the anus, Panda said. 

It took around 2.5 hours to remove the glass. A team consisting of Prof Sanjit Kumar Nayak, Dr Subrat Baral, Dr Satyaswarup and Dr Pratibha performed the surgery and removed the steel tumbler from the man's intestine, as per a media report in the Free Press Journal. The condition of the patient is good, and he will remain under for another four-five days under observation, the doctor said. 

A colostomy sheet was attached to him, and it will remain for some more days for defecation. He, however, did not face any problem with urine at present, sources said. According to the Head of Surgery department Prof Charan Panda, the man worked in a cotton mill at Surat in Gujarat. 

According to Prof. Panda, this was a first-of-its-kind incident in which the glass was removed from the rectum of a man.