Removing a phone from the stomach of an Egyptian patient who swallowed it 6 months ago
Doctors at Aswan City Hospital in southern Egypt managed to extract a mobile phone from a patient's stomach.
The university hospital had received the patient, who complained of severe abdominal pain, without the initial examination explaining the cause of this fatigue.
Egyptian media quoted a press statement published by the hospital director as saying that the most accurate x-rays and examinations showed the presence of severe infections in the patient's stomach.
The statement added that as soon as the results of the x-rays appeared, the medical staff decided to subject the patient to immediate surgery, during which the foreign body was extracted from his stomach.
The doctors were then able to confirm that the body was a mobile phone, and were astonished that the patient had not told them the fact that he had swallowed the phone six months ago.
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