A 57-year-old Romanian man who has been diagnosed as depressed, tried to kill himself by chopping off his penis in a failed suicide attempt.
The man’s neighbour Eliza Ion found him with ‘blood dripping down his legs.
A neighbour found the 57-year-old, who’s identity has been concealed, and rushed him to the nearest hospital after he lost several pints of blood.
As of the time of filing this report, it was unknown whether surgeons were able to reattach his member, which chose to slice off with a knife.
According to Mail Online, the incident happened in the town of Targoviste in the county of Dambovita, Romania.
Reports suggests that the victim suffers from haemophilia type B and used to always complain about his health.
Just before planning his suicide, he was quoted to have said: ‘The haemophilia bothers me, everything hurts. My bones hurt.
Shock.”
Shock.”
Eliza Ion, the man’s neighbour, found him with blood dripping down his legs.
The Shocked neighbour said: “I visited him in the morning and brought a bottle of fizzy water. I asked him how he was doing and he said he was tired of life.
‘Then I called his sister and told her his thoughts. Later I went again to his place and he barely let me in. He said he cut himself and I saw his blood dripping down his legs.”
The man’s sister, who was unidentified by Mail Online, said: “He lives alone. His neighbour called and told me to come to the hospital because he cut himself. He’s very ill. He’s got B-type haemophilia and can’t move his shoulders.”
“We always wanted to take him to a hospital, but he always refused. He said he would kill himself like this but we never took him seriously because he seemed a coherent person.”
The manager of Dambovita county ambulance service, Claudiu Dumitrescu, said:“We were called to a scene where a 57-year-old patient had attempted suicide through the severing of a sexual organ.
“The victim was safely taken to the County Emergency Hospital in Targoviste for appropriate care.”
Claudiu added that the man would be staying in hospital for medical supervision and will later be examined by a psychologist.
Haemophilia B, sometimes called Christmas disease, is a blood clothing disorder that occurs as a result of mutation of what is termed the IX gene, this leads to a deficiency of the IX which is responsible for the clothing of the blood.
It is a rare kind of haemophilia, named after Stephen Christmas, who happens to be the first patient ever diagnosed of the disease.
The deficiency of the IX Factor leads to an increased propensity for haemorrhage, and this in turn can lead to mild or spontaneous trauma, especially in joints or muscles.