It took a two-hour operation for surgeons to remove the cell phone stuck in the stomach of a detainee in Kosovo.
- It was a small phone, a Nokia 3310, which the patient had had in his stomach for four days.
- The inmate did not specify how the phone ended up in his stomach
It’s a story that ends well. In a Kosovo prison, a 33-year-old prisoner had been complaining for several days of stomach aches. He ended up being sent last week to the gastroenterology department of the clinical university center in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. This is where the doctors found the origin of the prisoner’s stomach aches: a cell phone.
“Like walking through a minefield”
To relieve the patients, the surgeons then undertook an operation which lasted two hours, reported to AFP Skender Telaku, the gastroenterologist at the head of the medical team which practiced the intervention. “By endoscopic means, without opening the stomach, the phone was removed dismantled into three parts”, he clarified. It was a small phone, a Nokia 3310, which the patient had had in his stomach for four days.
The operation was delicate and particular attention was paid to the device’s battery and potential leaks of corrosive acid. “It was like walking through a minefield but it all went well”, imaged Skender Telaku. The detainee did not specify how the phone ended up in his stomach, although the medical team assumes that it was intended for illicit communications with the outside world. The police did not comment on the case.
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