According to an announcement by the “Agia Sofia” Children’s Hospital, the hand of the 11-year-old from Zakynthos, who was carrying out agricultural work with his father in the field at noon on Saturday, was welded after nine hours. he put his hand on the milling machine and lost it.
See the hospital announcement.
With heavy bleeding, the child was transported to Zakynthos Hospital and underwent surgery. However, despite the superhuman efforts of the doctors, they were unable to save the arm, which had been amputated from the shoulder.
The unfortunate boy was then transported by C-130 to a hospital in Athens.
The little patient arrived by ambulance at the hospital at 16:30 the same day and in good general condition. The amputated limb was transported at the same time as the prescribed procedure. At 17:00 he entered the Surgery of the GNPA “I AGIA SOFIA”, where he underwent surgical reattachment (No.) of the upper limb at the height of the upper third of the (No.) arm. The operation was successfully completed at 02:00 in the morning of 13.02.22.
The patient is hospitalized in a stable condition in the ICU of the hospital.
According to the announcement of the hospital, it is the first successful reattachment of a limb at shoulder height in a child in Greece.
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