Indian Construction worker's Brain is pierced by 7-foot long iron rod at building site - but he Survives

Mohammad Guddu, 24, had been mixing cement at a construction site in Malad, Mumbai, when the rod fell from a higher floor and pierced through his head and came out the back of his skull.

However, he was saved after doctors at a government hospital cut open his skull in order to pull out the rod during a five-hour operation. Mr Guddu is now out of danger and is responding well to treatment, although he has developed paralysis on the left side of his body.

Dr Batuk Diyora, the neurosurgeon who led the team to save Mr Guddu, said: 'It is indeed a miracle that the man survived such an injury.
 

'It was tricky surgery but what helped saving him was the fact that the road has pierced a noneloquent region of his brain.

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'It is an area that has no easily discernible cognitive, motor or sensory functions and didn't damage the vital arteries that carry blood to the brain.

'The patient's brain stem wasn't damaged and the arteries carrying blood to the brain were also safe.'

 

Mr Guddu is likely to remain in hospital for at least another two weeks before he is released.