A 31-year-old Indian national nearly lost his life after inserting a live eel, approximately 65cm long, into his anus.
Việt Đức Hospital in Hà Nội on Monday morning said that the hospital's doctors successfully performed emergency surgery to save the patient's life.
On July 27, the emergency department of the hospital received a male patient, 31 years old, an Indian national, who arrived in a state of severe abdominal pain. Upon obtaining the patient's medical history, it was revealed that at around 12pm on July 27, he had inserted a large eel into his anus.
The patient was immediately examined, underwent imaging, tests and an ultrasound. The X-ray images showed a radiopaque skeleton lying horizontally in the abdominal cavity from left to right.