Chennai sources stated that a team of veterinarians removed 52 kilograms of plastic waste from inside the stomach of a cow through a surgery that lasted over five hours in Vepery, Chennai. Meanwhile surgeons from Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) operated on the bovine to remove the plastic which was ingested by the bovine over a period of two years probably while foraging for food.

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Furthermore apart from plastic waste, surgeons also found a coin, a screw and two nails from inside the cow, which had delivered some 20 days ago. Meanwhile its owner said he had purchased the cow when it was around six months pregnant and although it delivered a calf 20 days ago, it was having problems in passing dung and urine and the cow also had difficulties yielding milk and frequently kicked its stomach with its legs.



Moreover after observing the problem, the owner took the cow to a local veterinarian who advised him to take it to TANUVAS. Perhaps an X-Ray and Ultrasound scan revealed that plastic had occupied 75% of the rumen (one of the four chambers of the cow's stomach). Apparently Dr Velavan, Assistant Professor and Surgeon told ANI: "We gave region-specific anaesthesia instead of general anaesthesia and the rumen was completely occupied by the plastic. We removed the plastic. The problem was that the wastes were attached to the walls of the rumen, we had to be very careful that we do not damage the wall."


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