Tiruttani temple elephant treated at Chennai

CHENNAI: After nearly a week of intense discomfort, Valli (28), the Tiruttani Arulmighu Subramania Swamy Thirukovil elephant, will now breathe easy, thanks to a team of doctors from the Madras Veterinary College, who cured her of severe constipation....

Valli, a favourite of devotees at the Tiruttani temple for nearly 20 years, is more famously known as the little elephant who acted with Rajinikanth in the superhit Tamil film ‘Annai Oru Aalayam’ in the 1980s. ...

A team of doctors, under Dr K Amir Jan went to work and manually removed the excreta from Valli's anus. A total of eight kilos of waste matter was thus removed. Following this, Valli rapidly recovered her appetite....

Doctors who attended upon Valli said the problem had risen because she had consumed a lot of plastic material, probably along with the food offered by devotees...

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