Addis Ababa: Ethiopian doctors extracted over a hundred iron nails and other sharp objects from the stomach of a patient in the capital, Addis Ababa, at the weekend. Dawit Teare, a surgeon at St. Peter's Specialised Hospital, said the 33-year-old patient suffers from mental illness and had apparently consumed the items, including 122 four inch nails, four pins, a toothpick and pieces of broken glass. "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 added that the patient was recovering well.

Source: Ethiopian News October 22, 2018 10:41 UTC