A private hospital in Puducherry has claimed to have removed over 20 foreign objects from the stomach of a 20-year-old man through endoscopic procedure recently. The patient has recovered, the hospital said and has now started to eat food.
Addressing a press meet, K. Sasikumar and K. Sugumaran, surgical gastroenterologists, Gem Hospital, and G. Rajesh Kumar, medical gastroenterologist said the youth was admitted to the hospital on August 7, with complaints of severe abdominal pain for the past few weeks. The patient was taking medication for a psychiatric illness. Tests for ulcer and scan reports were normal.
Subsequently, a team of medical professional later found the accumulation of ingested material, which included multiple sharp objects, that had become a hard mass of substance in the stomach, Dr. Sasikumar said. Dr. Sugumaran said the procedure to remove the mass lasted two hours
“We removed 13 hairpins, five safety pins, and five razor blades from the stomach of the patient. The patient then started eating normally, and was discharged the next day,” Dr. Sasikumar claimed.
