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It’s a miracle that saved him....

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Doctors at AIIMS’s trauma centre display the iron rod which pierced Supratim Dutta’s chest.

NEW DELHI: Doctors at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here are calling it a miracle and 22-year-old Supratim Dutta’s family hasn’t stopped thanking their gods for having allowed their son to live to tell about his miraculous escape.

Doctors at the AIIMS Jayaprakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre have successfully operated on Mr. Dutta managing to remove a five-foot-long and two-inch-wide iron rod which had pierced through the upper part of his abdomen and come out of the thorax (chest) on the left side of the body. Now recuperating at the hospital, Mr. Dutta is stable but critical. The doctors are now keeping an eye out for any infections or other complications after the surgery. Mr. Dutta was injured when his office car driven by a driver hit a Delhi Metro rail barricade. The impact had caused an iron rod to smash through the bonnet and dashboard. It had gone through Mr. Dutta attaching him to the car seat where he remained for half an hour till he was rescued.

Still conscious after the accident, the injured man managed to alert his friends and family using his cell phone telling them about his condition and the exact location of the scene of accident.

“The way the iron rod was stuck, there was no way that we could have put the patient through a scanner. The operating doctors knew that we were to do a complicated operation where one wrong move could mean a permanent injury,” said the trauma centre head, Dr. M.C. Misra.

“The patient was brought to us over half and hour after the accident, but luckily for him his friends who had reached him did not try pulling out his shirt or the iron rod, that could have led to excessive bleeding and spoiled our case.

What also worked in favour of the patient were the facts that the rod had missed vitals organs including the kidney and the heart,” added Dr. Misra.

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