Doctors remove 1.5 kilo of hair from Hudaida patient`s stomach

HUDAIDA, April 24 (Saba) - Doctors have removed a kilo and a half of
hair from the stomach of a patient who has been suffering from vomit
and stomach pains for twenty years.

Director general of the al-Amal Hospital in Hudaida province Abdul
Majeed al-Yusfi said the patient, a 27-year-old women has been
eating hair since she was seven.

The hair quantity was discovered after she visited a ray medical
doctor who diagnosed her.

She then underwent a surgery for the illness which al-Yusif said was
the first of its kind they have ever treated.

A medical team could take out hair of the women's stomach, he said,
adding she has been released and is now in a good shape.

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