Tradie miraculously survives after metal pole pierces skull
A construction worker has somehow survived a metal pole piercing his skull.
The 24-year-old had an iron rod fall about six metres from a construction site and penetrate his head while working in Ghaziabad, India, on July 31, The Times of India reported.
The rod was described as one used in scaffolding and was trimmed at the construction site before he was transported to hospital.
Neurosurgeon Dr Abhinav Gupta, who treated the man, told the paper despite the gruesomeness of the injury he still had a 90 per cent chance of survival. He described the four-hour surgery as a challenge and the likes of which he had never performed before.
Dr MK Singh added it looked bad for the man when he came in as he had a 12mm rod sticking out of his head.
Dr Gupta said he had to open up half of the man’s skull to remove the rod.
“The toughest part was to remove the iron rod from the brain without doing further damage to it,” he said.
The surgery was a success and Dr Gupta said the man is breathing on his own now.
Unfortunately, he is paralysed on the left side of his body. Dr Gupta said the man will require rehabilitation and physical therapy.
The man will also receive further surgery in two months to repair the part of his skull which had to be removed.
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