Indian has surgery to remove large amount of eaten metals

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Doctors were left baffled after removing more of £53k worth of jewellery and coins from the stomach of an Indian woman
Runi Khatun, 26, was 'weak and emaciated' when she was rushed to hospital on July 16 in West Bengal state after she began throwing up after every meal. 

During surgery, doctors removed 69 chains, 80 earrings, 46 coins, eight lockets, 11 nose rings, four keys, five anklets and one watch dial from her abdomen

The woman's mother said she noticed ornaments had started disappearing from their home but she had no idea that her daughter was swallowing them.

She said her daughter got the coins from her brother's shop and added that when she would question her about the missing objects she would cry

Doctors said while the objects were mostly made of copper and brass, there were also some expensive gold jewellery found inside her stomach.

Dr. Siddhartha Biswas, head of the surgery department at the Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital, said the patient was 'emancipated' and could not eat food.

He said: 'The patient looked weak and emaciated at the time when she was admitted to the hospital,' he said.

'Her albumin and haemoglobin count were so low that we could not perform an operation soon.

'Her condition was so critical that she required at least five bottles of blood. She could not even intake food physically so we had to administer Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) to artificially inject food through her mouth.'

The patient was slowly stabilised and within a week's time the doctors decided to operate on her
'If we had operated on her earlier, she wouldn't have survived,' stated Dr. Biswas.

The operation lasted for nearly an hour and fifteen minutes and the doctors successfully removed the large chunk of metals and jewellery from her stomach