Koraput: In a rare, life-saving surgical feat, doctors at Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital in Odisha's Koraput district successfully removed an arrow lodged deep inside the stomach of a youth on Tuesday.

The patient, Laxman Gouda of Paknaguda village in Mathili block in Malkangiri district, was shifted to Koraput in a critical condition after preliminary treatment at the district headquarters hospital in Malkangiri. He had been shot with an arrow by another local on Monday evening.

Doctors at SLNMCH said by the time he reached the hospital, Laxman had lost nearly 1.5 litre blood as the arrow had penetrated almost six inches into his stomach cutting through his intestine at two places. He was immediately operated upon at around 10 pm, given the excessive loss of blood.

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