MANALI: Doctors at Shri

Government Medical College and Hospital (SLBSGMCH) here were shocked to recover a knife,

, screwdrivers, toothbrushes and a small steel bar from the stomach of a patient who was admitted to the hospital with stomach pain on Thursday.

According to the doctors, a 35-year-old patient, a resident of Sundernagar in Mandi, is a patient of psychiatric disorder and was brought to the hospital by his family members with a sharp tip of a knife protruding out of his stomach. The patient was immediately rushed to the operation theatre. The doctors were shocked when they found many metal items, including spoons, clearly visible in the abdominal X-ray.

The family members of the patient said he had been under medication for a long time and was helping them in household works. A few days back when the patient complained of stomach pain, he was brought to a private clinic in Sundernagar where doctor noticed his bulged stomach where the skin had started to develop a sore. During the treatment, the tip of knife came out of the stomach and the doctor referred the patient to SLBSGMCH at Ner Chowk in Mandi.

Dr Nikhil Soni, Dr Suraj Bhardwaj, Dr Ranish and team operated upon the patient for four hours and recovered a knife, eight spoons, two screwdrivers, two toothbrushes and a small steel bar from his stomach.

Dr Bhardwaj said the patient was brought to the hospital at 3pm and his family members told us that the patient had swallowed a knife three days back.

"We could clearly see tip of the knife peeping out of his body. When we operated upon him, we recovered more things which we had never seen but only read in the books. He is a known case of psychiatric disorder. Now he is stable," he added.