In one of the most bizarre cases that could have come walking into a hospital, a 56-year-old railway employee from Kota arrived with a total of 150 pins inside various parts of his body, including critical places. Doctors found stationery safety pins and hypodermic injection needles piercing even his windpipe, food pipe, vocal cord and major blood vessels like the carotid artery. The patient had to undergo surgery to get them removed, however, only 92 pins have been taken out.
According to a report in the leading newspaper, since there is a limit to which body tissues can be subjected to surgeries, only the pins that posed a threat to his life have been taken out, doctors said. As per the report, no one – not even patient himself – knows how pins and needles came to be there. The patient and his family deny any knowledge about them, but doctors believe that he suffers from psychiatric…
