Bull saved as 38 kg of plastic removed from stomach

Madurai | Saturday | 22nd September, 2018

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Veterinary surgeons who removed 38 kg of plastic from a bull at C.

Pudur veterinary hospital in Madurai on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Handoutmore-inMADURAIAfter a three-hour surgery on Wednesday, a team of veterinary surgeons saved a three-and-a-half-year-old bull by removing close to 38 kg plastic (polythene bags) from its stomach. Immediately, the animal was subjected to a surgery and the doctors successfully removed the plastic weighing 38 kg. Not only the environment was in danger, but even animals which ate the food along with the plastic, they cautioned. “If left unattended for another 48 hours, the bull could not have been saved,” the doctors said..