Uttar Pradesh: Doctors remove 63 spoons from man's stomach
Dr Rakesh Khurana, the doctor who operated upon Vijay, said, "He was brought to me 15 days back and in the X-ray, we found something metallic in his stomach and large intestines. When I asked the patient he said, he was made to eat those spoons. The operation went on for two hours. We have never done this kind of extraction before.";
Muzaffarnagar: In a bizarre incident doctors have removed 63 spoons from man's stomach in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district after patient complained of severe stomach ache.
Vijay Kumar, 32, underwent a two-hour-long operation in a private hospital. The patient, who is in the ICU for post-surgery recovery, told doctors that he was forced to 'eat' the spoons in a de-addiction centre.
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According to Ajay Chaudhary, the patient's nephew, "We had brought our uncle here in a private hospital as he complained of severe stomach ache and was diagnosed having numerous spoons in his stomach. We had admitted him to a deaddiction centre a year ago where it seems he was forced to consume these spoons."
Dr Rakesh Khurana, the doctor who operated upon Vijay, said, "He was brought to me 15 days back, and in the X-ray, we found something metallic in his stomach and large intestines. When I asked the patient, he said he was made to eat those spoons. The operation went on for two hours. We have never done this kind of extraction before."
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