This is the moment as doctor from Vietnam painstakingly extracts a 15cm-long leech from a patient's nose.

Revolting footage from July 25 from an endoscope shows the grim discovery - and retrieval - of the blood-sucking creature.

The woman went to the hospital in north-central Nghe An Province hospital said that her nose was sore and bleeding.

The doctor checked and spotted the leech living in the woman's nose, he said.

The live leech was clinging to the walls of the nose to suck blood from the inside.

One reason for how it got there was that the leech could have entered the body after the patient - who lives in a mountainous area - bathed in local streams.

Permission from the patient to share the video for educational purposes has been granted.

Video captured The doctor removed the live leech has a length of 15cm in the woman's nose in hospital in Nghe An Province, Viet Nam.
According to the doctor, Dr. Nam said that The woman went to the hospital and said that her nose was sore and bleeding.
The doctor checked and suddenly spotted a giant leech living in the woman's nose. It is quite large and is moving in a woman's nasal cavity. The live leech was about 15cm long and was clinging to the walls of the nose to suck blood from patients
The doctor used the device to pick up the leech, but when it was discovered the leech device had moved to the other bridge of the nose. The doctor quickly transferred the device to the other nasal tube and grabbed the leech. The leech had sucked blood and hurt a woman's nasal tube. This was the reason why her nose hurts.
The woman said, she lives in high mountains and often baths in the stream.
The doctor said that maybe the leech was in the woman's nose when she was bathing in the streams.
The woman will need several days of treatment to heal the wound in the nose.
The video was filmed with the patient's permission.
Video captured on July 25, 2020.