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FactQryworker's ha"~§'
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DOCTOR SAVES LIMBS IN FIVE-HOUR OPERATION
By a staff reporter
DUBAI - For 25-year-old
Filipino national Ferdi-
nand, it all happened ina
flash of a second, and he
was unable to pull his
hands out of the rollers.
"I experienced excruci-
ating pain followed by
numbness,~' he said.
Three days ago,Ferdi-
nand, who works for the
Arabian Packaging Com-
pany, was brought to New
Medical Centre (NMC)
Speciality. Hospital, . with
both hands crushed by
rollers of a fabricating
machine.
. "It was a Friday, and this
patient was referred to us
from a government hospi-
tal. Both his hands had
been completely
crushed," explained plas~
tic surgeon Dr Sanjay
Saraf. . clearance from the insur-
"He was suffering from
.Describing another~ase",:
Dr Saraf said th;it on May
.
12., Ii 32~year-old Indian I
nation al was brough t to
the. hospital in a similar-
. . I
condition.
"His. right hand been I
caught in the rollers of £1,
printing press and what
extrem~ compartment going ahead with the remained, was the upper
syndrome (blockage of operation," said the limb," he said. .
veins and arteries caused doctor. "Before he was brought
due to an accident) and "The hve hour operation toNMC,his hand had
we had almost los~ his also had it's highs and been amputated," he
pulse," said the doctor. lows because we almost added.
Dr Sara; explained that lost the patierit in Dr Saraf'said the patient
crushing. of .musc1es between. Thankfully,. the was also suffering from
causes release of toxins operation was a success compartment syndrome
that directly attack the and. his hands have been and was brought to the
working of kidneys. saved," explained the doc- hospital with an ampu-
"In this case the toxins tor, ..adding that the tated hand.
had already been released patient was recovering "There was no skin on
which could cause the and doing well. his limb. We had to har-
kidneys to stop lNorkingat "Skin graft operations vest skin from his thigh
any time. Therefore we will be done at a later and reconstru.cthis limb
were in a hurry to get a stage when he has fully after a lO-hour skin/bone i
recovered,"
doCtor.
said the re-constructive surgery,"
. :
ance company before
he explained. .. J