The 63-year-old approached the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the national capital for a surgery, stating that he had swallowed a water bottle cap and wanted to get it out of his body.
"He approached us on April 7 seeking surgery to remove a water bottle cap which he claimed he had accidentally swallowed. We got an X-ray done and it didn't appear to be a cap. As the gold bars got stacked one behind the other, it appeared to be a metal," said Dr. C. S. Ramachandran, senior consulting surgeon at the hospital.
A team of doctors operated upon him on April 9 to get through the abdominal cavity and removed the foreign metal.
According to hospital sources, the man had swallowed the 12 gold biscuits to smuggle them into the country from Singapore 10 days ago.
He landed in trouble when he failed to get it out through his stool. It eventually started hurting him because of which he approached the doctors.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
