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Medical Miracles: Doctors stitched the severed hand to leg to keep it alive

A most amazing moment when the doctors of china stitched the severed hand of a worker to his leg to keep that hand alive.

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Doctors did this because they needed to keep it alive while they repaired his arm, which was also flattened in the accident. So, they decided to attach it to his left ankle to keep the blood flowing to it.

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Later they reattached the severed hand to his arm and made the operation successful.

Actually, the patient, Xiao Wei, got chopped off his hand by the machine when he was at work. Later after operation, he said “I’m still young and couldn’t imagine life without a right hand”.

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