8 years old sustained an amputation of the arm in a road accident. The child reported to the hospital after 3 hours with the hand in a polythene bag! Within minutes the arm was in the operation theatre. In an overnight surgery the arm was successfully reattached.
The boy is a grown-up married man and gainfully employed! This was done in 1996! First for the city of Pune.
Dr. Pankaj Jindal is a hand surgeon in Pune with 35+ years of clinical experience in Hand Surgery and more than 30,000 surgeries performed. He specializes in hand trauma, microsurgery, nerve surgery, replantation and revascularisation, hand reconstruction, congenital hand deformities, paralysis reconstruction and complex reconstructive hand surgery. He has undertaken extensive international training in Hand Surgery across France, the United States, Switzerland, Taiwan and Hong Kong.