Indian man urinates hair after 'botched' operation

Ratnagiri businessman Murad Mulla, 48, who has lost his sleep, appetite, sexual life and ability to work has landed up at the state-run St George Hospital with the hope of leading a normal life again. He has spent the past seven years chasing doctors and undergoing six surgeries to fix a not-so-unusual problem of urine retention. Mulla suffers from an odd condition where he passes pubic hair every time he urinates. The constant itching inside his private parts, the pain and the restlessness have driven him to a point where he moves around with sleeping pills.

"The pills give me strength in a way. Every time the pain becomes unbearable, I feel I have something to end it all," says Mulla. Once a well-to-do businessman, married with three children, Mulla now survives on loans, and goes to bed on an empty stomach. He has already lodged complaints of negligence with the Maharashtra Medical Council against two surgeons-one based in Ratnagiri and the other in Pune-who he claims have turned his life upside down. The one responsible for his current condition, Mulla alleges, is the urosurgeon from Pune who used a procedure that some doctors consider "outdated".



The doctor, while performing urethroplasty, an open surgical procedure to treat narrowing of urethra, used a patch of skin from his scrotum. While medical literature says that certain portions of scrotum have no hair growth, Mulla's case turned to be quite the opposite. Soon after, Mulla started experiencing severe itching in his private parts. "This is when, to my horror, I found out that pubic hair had started growing inside my body," said Mulla. The doctor, he said, did not find anything amiss. "He injected chemicals inside my body through the penis saying it would take care of the problem. But these were all temporary solutions."

The constant itching began to give him sleepless nights. He started approaching other specialists who wanted to know why the surgeon could not perform the surgery using buccal mucosa, skin from the mouth. Mulla had to go back to the urosurgeon who, this time, used skin from his mouth. "Never once did the doctor regret his decision. I was charged for the second surgery too." Several experts said that the results of urethroplasty using skin from the mouth are almost similar to those performed using skin from scrotum. "But nowadays, we avoid using skin from scrotum because of such complications," said a specialist.