{An Indian man was recovering well after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet that had been lodged in his heart for two months, a doctor said Wednesday.}<\/p>\n
Bharat Sharma, 32 was shot twice in July after becoming accidently caught up in a bank robbery in the country’s eastern Uttar Pradesh state, according to a report in the Times of India.<\/p>\n
Sharma had surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his waist, but local surgeons had refused to take out the one in his heart, fearing he would die instantly, the report said.<\/p>\n
Sharma finally travelled to the western city of Ahmedabad for the surgery on Tuesday to remove the .20 calibre bullet lodged near the apex of his heart’s left ventricle.<\/p>\n
Cardiac surgeon Anil Jain said he and his team of two performed a “complicated” three-hour operation to remove the bullet and stitch up the heart.<\/p>\n
“The bullet was stuck horizontally between the valves,” said Jain, from the SAL private hospital in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
“Also, since the patient had lost lots of blood after the incident, we had to be very careful,” he told AFP.<\/p>\n
“How the patient survived and reached us is pure destiny, Jain said.<\/p>\n
The doctor said Sharma would be able to return to work in another month after his recovery in the hospital’s intensive care unit.<\/p>\n
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