For Vijay Kumar Aggarwal, things went south in the middle ofa lockdown. In a nightmarish incident, Aggarwal¡¯s hand got stuck in mustard oilexpeller in his farm and was eventually chopped off by the machine.?
With no other option in hand, the resident of Bihar¡¯sChamparan district was forced to take on an arduous?130-km-long journey toimmediately get surgery.
According to a Hindustan Daily report, Aggarwal was rushedto a local hospital but the doctors there asked him to go to either Patna orGorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. The family preferred to take him to Gorakhpur. His handwas chopped by the machine till the elbow.
The incident took place on March 22 during Janta curfew. He was feeding the expeller with mustard, got his hand stuck in themachine.?
Aggarwal?also suffered a 9-centimetre bone fracture from the spot hishand got severed.
When Aggarwal reached Gorakhpur in an ambulance after fourhours, a team of eight doctors led by plastic surgeon Dr Neeraj Naithanistarted preparation for the surgery.
"The surgery took 7 hours to complete. It was a verycritical operation. we had to cut the part of the hand by at least 10centimeters due to contamination," the report quoted Dr Naithani assaying.
The doctors had already advised Aggarwal to bring thesevered hand in an icebox. After the surgery. Aggarwal's hand started moving with normal blood circulation in the veins and he remained unconsciousfor nine days after the operation.
Dr Naithani also added that Aggarwal¡¯s case was morecritical than the Punjab ASI Harjeet Singh, whose hand was cut off by a man inPunjab.
Punjab Police officer, whose hand was chopped off with asword in an attack by a group of fugitives in Patiala was admitted for surgeryin the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) inChandigarh.?
The doctors at PGIMER successfully grafted the cop's choppedhand with plastic surgery, which they said was "technically very complexand challenging". All the nerves at the wrist required bony fixation doneusing three K-wires. The approximate time taken was about 7.5 hours.