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Doctors remove stone-like vaginal mass linked by patient to ritual in Indonesia
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This article contains descriptions of a surgical procedure and medical details some readers may find disturbing.
Key facts
- SONGKHLA — 2 July 2026, Doctors at Hatyai Hospital have removed a large stone-like mass from a 47-year-old woman who had suffered chronic pelvic pain for three years, in an unusual case the patient linked to a ritual she said she underwent
- This article contains descriptions of a surgical procedure and medical details some readers may find disturbing.
- The scan revealed a foreign object measuring approximately 10 to 12 centimetres inside her vaginal canal
- Further examination revealed green and red acrylic-like spheres measuring about three centimetres in diameter, along with 11 multicoloured beads measuring roughly five millimetres each.
Summary
SONGKHLA — 2 July 2026, Doctors at Hatyai Hospital have removed a large stone-like mass from a 47-year-old woman who had suffered chronic pelvic pain for three years, in an unusual case the patient linked to a ritual she said she underwent in Indonesia years earlier.
Dr. Sunthorn Srisuwan, an associate professor of orthopaedics at Hatyai Hospital in Songkhla province, shared details of the case on his Facebook page under the title “Sorcery vs. Medical Science and Nursing Science at Hatyai Regional Hospital.”