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She presented with crampy abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting of three days duration. She was diagnosed with acute surgical abdomen and managed surgically at Arsi University College of health sciences, Assela, Ethiopia. Intraoperative finding revealed left-side obturator hernia, which is an extremely rare occurrence. Despite delayed presentation, our patient had smooth postoperative recovery. Obturator hernia is exceedingly rare, and it poses a diagnostic challenge as signs and symptoms are often nonspecific, making a preoperative diagnosis difficult. 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