[Watch] Odisha vets remove fishhook from snake's mouth
Bhubaneswar, Oct. 21 -- A team of veterinarians successfully operated to remove a fishhook stuck inside mouth of a venomous snake here in the state capital.
The cobra de capello snake was brought to the College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry of OUAT by snake helpline members in a critical condition from Jaleswar area in Balasore district yesterday.
The veterinary doctors were shocked to see the presence of a long fishhook with a thread inside the snake the x-ray report.
Later, a team of doctors performed surgery on the snake to remove the foreign body from its mouth. The surgery took about 30 minutes.
"In x-ray report, we found that the fishhook was stuck in its esophagus area, around 4 inch deep from its mouth. We tried to ...
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