A news during the weekend revealed that Ethiopian doctors extracted over a hundred iron nails and some other sharp objects from the stomach of a patient in the capital Addis Ababa. “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 objects,” Dawit told AFP after the two-and-a-half hour operation. “I’m guessing he consumed the objects with the help of water, however he is a lucky person that those sharp objects didn’t cut his stomach. 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 on this scale. Dawit revealed that the patient is responding to treatment.

Source: Ethiopian News October 22, 2018 13:41 UTC