New Delhi: In a bizarre incident, an inmate of Delhi’s Tihar jail swallowed his mobile phone to hide it from authorities as using mobile phones is not allowed inside any jail.
Doctors performed an endoscopy to bring out the mobile, 7 cm long and 3 cm wide, through the mouth with the help of a snare.
Dr. Siddharth, Department of Gastroenterology from GB Pant Hospital, Delhi said that the patient, who had ingestion of a foreign body, was brought to the hospital on January 15.
An X-ray of his abdomen was done which revealed that it could be a mobile phone, the doctor said.
"Endoscopy was done through the mouth and the mobile was caught using a snare. The mobile was taken out through the mouth," Dr. Siddharth said.
The whole procedure was performed by the team of GB Pant Hospital led by Dr. Siddharth and Dr. Manish Tomar of the Gastroenterology Department.
"Usually jail inmates do it to hide it from authorities. It can be swallowed only by people who are habituated to doing this. It is a technically demanding procedure and requires skill to take the big bag out," Dr. Siddharth.
Dr. Siddharth further said that he has handled ten similar cases in the hospital so far.
(ANI)
