Bihar Man's Severed Hand Attached Successfully After 130-Km Trip For Surgery During Lockdown
A businessman from Bihar went through a rough patch after his hand got severed in a mustard oil expeller. He had to travel 130-km to Gorakhpur with his severed hand amid the lockdown and went through a 7-hour long surgery to get it fixed.
For Vijay Kumar Aggarwal, things went south in the middle of a lockdown. In a nightmarish incident, Aggarwal¡¯s hand got stuck in mustard oil expeller in his farm and was eventually chopped off by the machine.
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With no other option in hand, the resident of Bihar¡¯s
Champaran district was forced to take on an arduous 130-km-long journey to
immediately get surgery.
According to a Hindustan Daily report, Aggarwal was rushed to a local hospital but the doctors there asked him to go to either Patna or Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. The family preferred to take him to Gorakhpur. His hand was 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 the machine.
Aggarwal also suffered a 9-centimetre bone fracture from the spot his hand got severed.
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When Aggarwal reached Gorakhpur in an ambulance after four hours, a team of eight doctors led by plastic surgeon Dr Neeraj Naithani started preparation for the surgery.
"The surgery took 7 hours to complete. It was a very critical operation. we had to cut the part of the hand by at least 10 centimeters due to contamination," the report quoted Dr Naithani as saying.
The doctors had already advised Aggarwal to bring the severed hand in an icebox. After the surgery. Aggarwal's hand started moving with normal blood circulation in the veins and he remained unconscious for nine days after the operation.
Dr Naithani also added that Aggarwal¡¯s case was more critical than the Punjab ASI Harjeet Singh, whose hand was cut off by a man in Punjab.
Punjab Police officer, whose hand was chopped off with a sword in an attack by a group of fugitives in Patiala was admitted for surgery in the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh.
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The doctors at PGIMER successfully grafted the cop's chopped hand with plastic surgery, which they said was "technically very complex and challenging". All the nerves at the wrist required bony fixation done using three K-wires. The approximate time taken was about 7.5 hours.
