At around 11 p.m. on Feb. 15, a noise came suddenly from the emergency department of the Frontier Corps Hospital of Fujian People's Armed Police in Quanzhou city, Fujian province. With the support of family members, a man named A Yong, pale and smelling of alcohol, shouted: "I won‘t be put back together!" His shouts confused the medical staff on duty. 

According to his family member, the man cut his penis after drinking excessive alcohol.

The cut portion was about 3 centimeters long and was put on ice as soon as A Yong was brought to the hospital. 

Doctor Huang, who was in charge of the operation, said later that the wound was not bandaged and was bleeding heavily when the man was transferred from a hospital in Yongchun county. A Yong even suffered from shock.

The situation was critical. After being put on an IV and given a blood transfusion, A Yong underwent an operation that lasted more than four hours. Luckily, the surgery went smoothly. 

"He usually does not drink, but he had five drinks that night," a family member told the doctor. A Yong is 36 years old. He has two daughters, ages 3 and 13 respectively.

A Yong was born to a rural family that preferred boys to girls. He was often laughed at for not having any male children. So on the night of Feb. 15, he drank himself into a great depression and used a knife to cut his penis. 

Judging from the wound, Doctor Huang guessed that A Yong must have made two cuts, and that his hand was also cut in the process. This is the first operation of its kind that the hospital has performed.

Doctor Huang said that A Yong's condition is currently stable. Generally, it takes six months to one year to fully recover, after which the injury should no longer affect A Yong‘s life.