A Malaysian doctor managed to remove an insect that caused severe pain to a patient over a period of days in a rare operation, the Mirror newspaper reported Tuesday.
The ear, nose and throat surgeon, Rahma Omar, examined a patient to try to find out why the man had a pain in his ear, to be surprised by an insect in the patient's ear canal, had been sitting there for days apparently.
The doctor performed a rare operation, which he photographed, in order to remove the insect that was suspended in the glue material inside the patient's ear. The biggest surprise was when the doctor discovered that the insect was still alive.
"The patient was suffering from severe pain and discomfort because of something in his ear," said doctor Omar, 49, based in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.
"It's definitely the first time I've ever seen this," the doctor said after the operation. "I hope I do not have to do a similar coin again," he said. "It could have been very dangerous."
Earlier this year, a doctor managed to snatch a small worm from the nose of a patient who suffered 10 days of bleeding and a headache.
The doctor pulled out of the nose of the 51-year-old patient from his right nose, likely to have entered him while swimming in a river.
