News : Miracle surgery in India

A team of Indian doctors successfully remove a six-foot long iron rod from a child's abdomen.

The incident took place when the boy fell from a terrace while playing. The rod went through his chest before coming out of the abdomen.

Doctors in India's eastern city of Ranchi conducted the miraculous surgery, removing the rod during a four-hour-long operation.

(SOUNDBITE)(Hindi) ARUN KUMAR, THE BOY'S FATHER: "He fell from the terrace of the house while playing and there was a rod which went through his abdomen."

(SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) SANDEEP AGGARWAL, SURGEON, RAJENDRA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (RIMS): "When the child was brought to us he had lost a lot of blood. Within 15 minutes we did an x-ray and other tests and when we slit open his abdomen, we discovered, the rod had passed through his chest. But because the abdominal cavity of a child is very small there were more chances of injury occurring there. Opening the abdomen, we discovered his liver was injured, the stomach was injured, but thankfully, the spleen and pancreas were safe. Child was lucky that he did not suffer any major injury but yes he had substantial injuries, it was life threatening injury I would say."

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