Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 8 (UNI) Death looked a near-certainty when a 57-year-old fisherman shattered his skull into pieces in a freak fishing accident, but an incredible surgery and effective aftercare at KIMSHEALTH, a world-class multispecialty hospital here, pulled him back from the brink to a new lease of life.
In the surgery that lasted for about five hours, Dr M D Sreejith, Neurosurgeon at KIMSHEALTH, undertook the high-risk procedure of extricating the broken pieces of the skull from the patient’s partly damaged brain and emerged successful, despite the survival rate in such cases being only razor-thin and almost negligible.
“Although the odds were heavily stacked against the patient – the critical nature of the wound, the collateral injuries he suffered on the chest and his age – we are happy the patient could leave the hospital cured in over 10 days’ time,” said a beaming Dr. Sreejith, here on Tuesday.