Doctors in India made an incredible discovery over the weekend: they found a whopping 187 coins in the stomach of a 59-year-old man who had been taken by relatives to a hospital in Bagalkot, Karnataka state, for serious injuries. abdominal pain removed after two hours of surgery.
The man was taken to hospital on Saturday after complaining of vomiting and abdominal pain. On X-rays and during an endoscopy, the hospital doctors discovered that the 59-year-old had swallowed numerous rupee coins.
1.5 kilograms of coins in the stomach
During the operation the next day, surgeons removed a total of 187 coins – 56 denominations of five rupees (equivalent to six cents), 51 coins of 2 rupees and another 80 coins of 1 rupee – weighing a total of about 1.5 kilograms. “The stomach was very dilated (…), there were a lot of coins in different parts of the stomach,” one of the doctors told the Hindustan Times, one of India’s leading English-language daily newspapers.
The man suffers from schizophrenia, it is said. “In this condition, patients don’t know what they are doing. These are rare cases. In my 40 years of service, this is the first case of this kind for me,” said one of the doctors involved in the operation. The man, who may have swallowed the coins for the past two to three months, is doing well given the circumstances and is stable.
Source: Krone
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