When the 45-year old Nigerian national bought a cough medicine from a store back home, little did he know that it would end up damaging his food pipe, making him unable to swallow food or even his saliva for months. However, Nuruddin Shittu can finally see light at the end of the tunnel as Mumbai doctors constructed another food pipe using his forearm’s skin tissues, and replaced it with the damaged one.

Nuruddin Shittu (45) decided to come to Fortis Healthcare for treatment after doctors in Nigeria informed him that his food pipe could not be salvaged