In a shocking incident, more than 1.5 kg ornaments and coins were removed from the stomach of a woman in West Bengal. The woman is said to be mentally unstable and was operated upon at a government hospital in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Wednesday.
Not only jewellery like chains, nose rings, earrings, bangles, anklets, but wrist bands and watches were also found. Ninety coins in the denomination of Rs 5 and Rs 10 too were removed from the stomach of the 26-year-old.
Siddharatha Biswas, the head of the surgery department in the Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital said, “We removed a total of 90 coins from the stomach of the woman. The ornaments were mostly made of copper and brass but some golden pieces of jewellery were also there.”
According to the woman’s mother, she noticed that ornaments were disappearing from their home at a village under Margram police station limits.
“My daughter is mentally unsound. For the past few days, she used to throw up every time after having a meal. We have noticed that ornaments are disappearing. But whenever we questioned her, she started crying. We used to keep a watch on her. But somehow she managed to swallow all these materials. She was not well for the past two months. We had taken her to various private doctors and she was on medication without any result,”
She said her daughter got the coins from her brother’s shop.
Finally, they took her to the hospital where the doctors operated her after conducting various tests for around a week.
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