In November, gastrosurgeon John Graham Williams and urologist Swati Bhasin of the Royal Wolverhampton Hospital’s NHS Trust published a sensational study.
In the magazine National Library of Medicine they reported that doctors and surgeons increasingly have to remove foreign objects from British butts.
According to Williams and Bhasin, this costs the British health service, the National Health Service (NHS) huge sums.
On Wednesday it happened again.
The British bomb squad The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team (EOD) had to move out to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in the southwest of England.
A patient had according to BBC an artillery shell from World War II in the ass.
The bomb squad feared that it was still active.
GRINDER COLLECTOR: The man collected grenades of this type from World War II. Photo: Shutterstock
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17 centimeters long
Fortunately, the grenade was not explosive.
“They were able to confirm that it was not active and therefore not a danger to people,” Gloucestershire police told the BBC.
Police say Insider that the grenade stuck the boom in the man’s rectum.
According to the man himself, he had slipped and fallen with his butt straight down on the grenade.
The grenade was 17 centimeters long and had a circumference of five centimeters.
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Before the bomb squad arrived at the hospital, the doctors had removed the grenade.
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, told Insider that it is common practice to call a bomb squad when something like this happens.
“As with any incident involving ammunition, the necessary safety procedures were followed to ensure that there was no danger to patients, staff or visitors at any time,” the spokesman said.
Changed bandage – discovered horrible error
Takes up almost 350 beds
In the study, published in the National Library of Medicine in November, the urologist and gastrosurgeon wrote that in the period between 2010 and 2019, NHS employees removed 3,500 foreign objects from British buttocks.
85.1 percent of these patients were men, while 14.9 percent were women.
In total, the treatment time of these patients took up 348 beds per year.
According to the study, most of the patients were in their twenties or fifties.
The missing man participated in his own search operation
Huge sums
It costs the NHS both time and money to remove foreign objects from the British.
According to the urologist and gastrosurgeon, the total cost was 338,810 pounds, ie over 4.1 million kroner.
“This study shows that the incidence of rectal foreign bodies is higher in men, and that it has increased during this period,” concluded the urologist and gastrosurgeon.
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