AMRITSAR: In a rare surgery doctors surgically removed as many as 40 knives from the stomach of a policeman here who claimed that he used to feel an “urge” to eat them.
A team of five doctors carried out a five-hour long surgery on Surjeet Singh (40), who is employed with Punjab Police and is posted at Tarn Taran district, at a hospital.
Mr. Singh had come to them complaining of stomach ache and excessive weight loss said Jitendra Malhotra, MD of Corporate Hospital, here today.
“A series of ultrasounds followed by various tests, including endoscopy and CT scan, related to the stomach were carried out before the surgery as the patient was admitted in the hospital with severe weight loss, besides multiple ailments.
Dr. Malhotra who led the team of doctors during the operation said, “When the patient came to us we suspected that it might be cancer, but during investigations we found some hard metal substances inside the stomach that had damaged liver and kidney and other organs”.
After the surgery, Mr. Singh was absolutely healthy, he said. The patient had told the doctors that he always had an urge to eat knives and he ate them over a period of two months.
Mr. Singh has been having psychological problems for a year now.]]>
