Man's severed hand is grafted to his LEG for a month to keep it alive

This is the positive side of technology where you can do amazing things like what happened to this man who go his severed hand is grafted to his LEG for a month to keep it alive before doctors successfully re-attach it.



Doctors have performed an extraordinary operation just to save a man's severed hand by just attaching it to his leg. Good thing, the man's hand was successfully grafted back on to his wrists after just a month, when the tendons and nerves had healed from the trauma.

This very rare operation was performed at a hospital in Changsha in central China.

It happened after a factory worker called Zhou had his left hand chopped off during a work accident involving a spinning blade machine. He was rushed to the Xiangya Hospital in Changsha where doctors assessed his situation.

Posted by WowViral on Thursday, July 9, 2015