Doctors bring out 11 pins from man’s body, 60 still inside

KOTA: Doctors of a Delhi hospital have extracted 11 pins from the body of a man from Bundi district though 60 more still remain in his body parts.

Badrilal (56), a railway employee from Barda village in Talera region, was detected with 71 pins two months ago when he underwent an X-ray in Bundi.

He was admitted to the railway hospital in Kota, which referred him to the Central Hospital in New Delhi last month. “First we extracted seven pins from the neck of the patient two weeks ago and four from the upper and lower limbs,” said Dr Sanjeev Singhal, a surgeon at the Central Hospital. The patient is a diabetic, so extracting pins from his body at one go could have led to infection, he told HT.

“Going safely, we decided to remove only those pins, which were causing pain and obstructing eating and swallowing of food.”