Bundi doctors remove 116 iron nails, wire from man’s stomach

KOTA: Surgeons of a government hospital were shocked when they removed 116 iron

nails

, iron pellets and wire from stomach of a 42-year-old person, a resident of Bundi, on Monday.


Patient Bhola Shankar is psychologically unwell and he was not able to narrate how he swallowed iron nails. The doctors, who performed the surgery claimed that it might be possible that he was in the habit of swallowing iron objects like nails, iron pellets and wire leading to accumulation of such objects in his stomach.

A team of doctors headed by Dr Anil Saini, surgeon at

Bundi district

government hospital, took one-and-a-half hour to remove 116 iron nails, an iron pellet and a long iron wire from the patient’s stomach. Each nail was 6.5cms long.