To see a patient that is holding a piece of his own skull after it fell off, hundreds of people are heading to a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.

A large, dead section of a 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away after severe burns starved it of blood.

Ratan Lal Bandyopadhyay, the surgeon who treated Roy, said, "When he came to us late last year, his scalp was completely burned and within months it came off exposing the skull. Later, we noticed that the part of his skull was loosening due to lack of blood supply to the affected area, which can happen in such extensive burn cases."

After the piece came off on Sunday, hundreds of people and dozens of doctors crowd around his bed to see the skull that he is holding.

However, fresh bone is growing because the inner covering and membrane were not affected from the burn.

Even though Roy has a new skull forming, he has decided not to let go of the old skull.

Roy said, "Doctors say a new skull covering has replaced the old one, but I am not letting go of this one. My skull has made me famous."