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Foreign object removed from man after six years

Staff Correspondent

Belgaum: Twenty-eight-year-old Abdul Aziz underwent pain and agony for six years after a foreign body that was stuck in his lungs, after he met with an accident, went undetected.

Aziz, who was a helper working along with the crew of a Truck in Belgaum, met with an accident and suffered multiple injuries. He was subjected to emergency treatment only to confront fresh problems, a sustained pain in chest and difficulty in breathing was foremost along with discharge of pus from a small wound in the right chest wall.

When he approached the city based KLE Society's Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Physician V.A. Kothiwale and senior Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgeon Shivappa B. Anurshetru diagnosed a collapsed and infected lung with a foreign body in it. Subsequently, the patient was operated upon and the foreign body, a wooden chip measuring 15 cm in length and 2 cm in width firmly embedded in the right lung and diaphragm was removed, according to a press release here on Saturday.

The patient is stated to be recovering and relieved of pain.

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