Doctors remove ball of human hair, shampoo packets from girl's stomach in India
Last updated on: 28 January,2020 04:19 pm
Doctors remove ball of human hair, shampoo packets from girl’s stomach in India
TAMIL NADU (Dunya News) – Doctors in India’s Tamil Nadu has removed more than half kg of human hair and plastic pieces like empty shampoo packets from the stomach of a girl. 13-year-old girl had complained of stomach pain for the last few months after which, her parents took her to the private VGM Hospital where a scan revealed a ball like object in her stomach. We had decided to remove it by endoscopy. As the attempt failed, it was decided to operate to remove the foreign particles. Surgeon Gokul Kripashankar and team conducted the surgery and successfully removed the hair and the empty shampoo packets from her stomach, hospital chairman V G Mohanprasad said. “The girl was mentally upset due to the death of a close relative, which led to her consuming objects like the empty packets and hair, which accumulated, resulting in frequent pain,” Surgeon Gokul told.