How doctors removed 122 nails from mans stomach
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ethiopian doctors have extracted over one hundred iron nails and other sharp objects from the stomach of a patient in the capital addis ababa1 dawit teare a surgeon at st. peters specialised hospital said the 33-year-old patient suffers from mental illness and had apparently consumed the items including 10-centimetre nails1 reports say the patient had also swallowed four pins a toothpick and pieces of broken glass1 the patient has been suffering from mental illness for the last 10 years and had stopped taking his medication two years ago one probable reason he started consuming inanimate objects1 i guess he consumed the objects with the help of water however he is a lucky person that those sharp objects didnt cut his stomach1 that could have led to serious infections and even deathdawit told afp after a two-and-a-half hour operation1 the surgeon said that while he had dealt with other cases in which people with mental illness had swallowed multiple sharp objects he had never encountered a case like the present one1 dawit added that the patient was recovering well1