Lock removed from girl’s stomach without surgery at Lyari Hospital
- 04-Aug-2025
KARACHI: Doctors at Lyari General Hospital successfully removed a lock from the stomach of a 23-year-old intellectually disabled girl in Karachi on Monday, without a traditional open surgery. The girl, a resident of Malir Khokhrapar, had accidentally swallowed the lock. She was brought to the hospital in a critical condition, suffering from severe abdominal pain. […]
Passenger held for carrying drug-filled capsules in stomach
- 06-Jun-2021
Customs' sources said that the passenger confessed to swallowing 82 capsules which were recovered after shifting the traveller to the hospital.
Two kilograms of hair removed from woman’s stomach
- 18-May-2020
In an unbelievable incident, doctors removed hair weighing around two kilograms from a woman’s stomach in Saudi Arabia.
Doctors find 1.5kg hairball in Chinese girl’s stomach
- 06-Mar-2019
Dr Tang Shilong of Donghua Hospital found a massive hairball tangled with food residue.
Doctors find 122 nails in Ethiopian’s stomach
- 22-Oct-2018
ETHOPIA: 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 (10 […]
106 cocaine capsules found in woman’s stomach
- 21-May-2018
NEW DELHI: Indian police used laxatives for several days to retrieve 106 cocaine capsules worth some $900,000 from the stomach of a Brazilian woman who tried to smuggle them into the country, officials said Monday. The 28-year-old woman and the capsules were presented to a New Delhi court which remanded her in the city´s Tihar […]
Surgeons shocked after finding 263 coins inside man’s stomach in India
- 28-Nov-2017
PUNE: Doctors in India were shocked to discover over 250 coins and dozens of nails inside a man’s stomach who complained of stomach pain. “The patient was complaining of stomach pain, so we thought of getting an endoscopy done,” said Dr. Priyank Sharma, who led the surgical team, according to the Independent. “We were shocked to […]
Operation eases teenager’s life who had 2kg hairball in her stomach
- 14-Jul-2017
SCROLL DOWN FOR PICTURES In a gruesome moment, doctors have removed a massive 2 kilogram hairball, the size of a melon, from stomach of a teenage girl in India. The operation has relieved her life from a constant pain as she could not even eat a meal at ease. A resident of Indian district […]
‘Negligent’ doctors leave scissor in woman’s stomach
- 12-Jun-2016
LARKANA: Doctors at a village in Shahdadkot village demonstrated worst of their responsibility, when they left a surgical scissor inside 70-year-old woman’s stomach during kidney treatment, ARY News reported.
Overeating during Ramazan causes many to suffer from stomach related diseases
- 25-Jun-2015
ABU DHABI: Many people in Abu Dhabi have suffered stomach related diseases mainly due to overeating in the month of Ramazan.