Scissors taken out from man’s stomach after two years

RAIPUR - A small pair of scissors left in a 60-year-old farmer’s stomach two years ago during an operation, leaving him in chronic pain, has finally been removed by doctors.

The latest surgery took three long hours and was conducted late Friday at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district, about 40 km from here, senior surgeon D.C. Jain told IANS.

Jain said the patient, Dhruv Verma, a farmer from Bemetara village in Durg district. The scissors were apparently left behind by a private doctor in December 2007.

“The patient is doing well and he is likely to be discharged within a week,” Jain said over telephone. “The patient had been in unbearable pain for the last two years.”

He said the scissors were stuck with the small intestine and it was a “risky operation” that was successful.

Verma alleged that a doctor at a nursing home in Durg left the pair of medical scissors in his stomach during an appendix operation two years ago.

“After the operation I suffered severe and chronic stomach pain. The Nursing Home refused to pay attention, describing it as ‘nothing major’,” Verma said.

“An X-ray recently confirmed the presence of the scissors in my stomach. Finally the Durg district hospital doctors helped me out,” he added.