Chinese man fitted with artificial anus

A 55-year-old farmer from the Hubei Province of China has spent his entire life with no anus bumhole.

The farmer, named only as Wu, was born with a condition known as anal atresia, where there is no real anus and the large intestine connects to the urethra. When Wu was an infant doctors surgically created a small hole for him near his urethra where he squeezed faeces out with his hands.

Despite this clearly nasty condition, it didn’t prevent Wu from getting married and starting a family.

Now, at the age of 55 Wu has saved up enough money to pay for treatment at the Wuhan Hospital. Dr Li Zhibiao from the hospital examined Wu and began treatment in January. Wu was fitted with an artificial anus, and three days later it was reported that he could excrete like a normal person.

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