US EditionFrench hospital treats man with shell up his rectum
- Hospital in Toulouse confirmed on Sunday it treated a patient admitted overnight Saturday to Sunday with a shell lodged in his rectum, according to la Depeche du Midi.
- La Depeche du Midi reported the 24-year-old patient told staff he had introduced the object himself.
- Operating-Room staff removed a collectible shell nearly 20 centimetres long, prompting a bomb-disposal team call while firefighters in Haute-Garonne provided fire protection.
- Officials reported the bomb-disposal team neutralized the device while the patient remained under observation at Rangueil hospital, according to the U.K. Daily Mirror.
- Reports identified the object as a decommissioned artillery shell from the end of the First World War, attracting coverage from la Depeche du Midi, AFP and the U.K. Daily Mirror.
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The memory of World War I and World War II continues to cause unusual episodes. Rangueil Hospital in Toulouse had to mobilize in the early morning of 1 January personnel from various health and military disciplines to resolve in the best possible way an unusual medical issue.
With severe pain, a 24-year-old in Toulouse in France went to the emergency room of a hospital. When the doctors recognized which object caused the pain, they demanded the war equipment clearance service.
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The Rangueil hospital in Toulouse has extracted a projectile from the First World War from a young man's rectum, which this weekend went to the emergency room because he was suffering from severe pain in the rectal area. "The surgical removal required emergency intervention by bomb deactivation experts and the establishment of a security perimeter," reported the local newspaper La Dépêche du Midi.The patient, 24 years old, arrived at the hospita…
A hospital in Toulouse, in southwestern France, confirmed on Sunday that he attended a man who entered with a projectile lodged in the rectum. A staff member who insisted on maintaining anonymity confirmed the news published in the local newspaper 'La Dépêche du Midi'. "The medical team discovered him and called a unit to defuse bombs", the source assured. Furthermore, 'Le Figaro' was able to confirm that the device introduced by the man was a p…
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