'A strange case': Doctors discover something startling inside prisoner who had a stomach ache
BIHAR, INDIA: Doctors are known to have nerves of steel and are often unfazed by the cases they encounter. However, a team of doctors was stumped when they discovered something bizzare while treating a prisoner.
In order to avoid being discovered using a mobile phone during a police raid in India's Gopalganj prison, the prisoner had swallowed it. The doctors at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) had to operate on him to retrieve it.
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'It was a strange case'
Soon after swallowing the gadget, Kaushar Ali, who was serving a three-year term for drug trafficking, began to have severe stomach aches. The almost four-inch phone was found in his stomach after X-rays were taken at a hospital in the state capital, Patna, after the police transported him there. A first for many of the medical professionals, doctors used an endoscopic device to effectively recover the cell phone through Ali's mouth and avoid surgical intervention, as per Yahoo!
Dr Manish Mandal, the medical director of IGIMS, claimed that this was the only instance in which he had ever removed a device of this size from a patient. "In my 25 year medical career, this was the first such case that a patient was admitted after swallowing a mobile phone. It was a strange case," he said. According to reports, Ali was on a phone call when prison officials unexpectedly showed up for a surprise check of his cell. He swallowed the phone in panic because the prison did not allow inmates to use mobile phones and he did not want to face any punishment.
Teenager
A 14-year-old Australian boy, who had inserted a golf ball into his anus, ended up at Royal Adelaide Hospital a few weeks prior to the medical emergency involving the prisoner. X-ray scans revealed that the ball had been stuck in his sigmoid colon, the final section of the large intestine, even though he was not in discomfort.
Doctors gave the boy a litre of laxatives and he successfully pushed out the ball three hours later after a difficult procedure, which lasted more than two hours, of physically trying to extract the ball while the boy was under general anesthesia. The doctors had to use a suction cup, medical net, quad-prong grasper and a balloon catheter, according to a medical journal.