Agra, March 21 -- : Self-medication is inadvisable and self-surgery is outright disastrous. A Vrindavan villager found this the hard way after he operated on himself on the basis of information supposedly acquired from the Internet, seeking relief from a continuous stomach ache.

The 32-year-old man, Raja Babu, from Sunrakh village made a seven-inch incision and placed stitches but was hospitalised because of non-stop bleeding and excessive pain.

Dr Shashi Ranjan, the incharge of emergency ward at Combined District Hospital in Vrindavan, who treated the man at the hospital, said: "Prima facie it appeared that the man had gone for 'self surgery' against all medical ethics. He had made an incision of 7 centimetres by 1 centimetre and when ...