Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 31: A team of doctors in the Department of Plastic Surgery, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) performed hand re-implantation of a three year old child today.
A SKIMS spokesman said the surgeons re-implanted three digits of the hand in a three year old child whose hand had got stuck in the wheel of a motor cycle.
He said the doctors who conducted surgery successfully included Dr. Mir Mohsin and Dr. Haroon under the supervision of head of the department Dr. Adil Hafeez. “The team of surgeons was able to re-implant all the three digits of the child in a 14 hour long surgery,’ he said.
Dr. Adil Hafiz, HoD Plastic Surgery while elaborating said that usually small children are a challenge for these kinds of surgeries as the vessel size and tissues are very delicate and small but all this becomes possible by proper expertise and the availability of high end equipment like operating microscopes, micro instruments and delicate sutures.
“Re-Implantation surgery of a hand is a challenge world over, as the hand is one of the primary organs to function in the body. Loss of hand can lead to a severe disability as well as loss of earning capacity of an individual,” Dr Omar Javed Shah said.
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