After a mammoth fourteen – hour surgery, a team of Surgeons including Dr. Mir Mohsin, Dr. Haroon led by Head of the Department (HOD) Plastic Surgery, SKIMS Dr. Adil Hafeez, successfully reconstructed the hand.

“Usually small children are a challenge for these kinds of surgeries as the vessel size and tissues are very delicate and small but all this becomes possible by proper expertise and the availability of high end equipment like operating microscopes, micro instruments and delicate sutures, Dr. Adil Hafeez told themandate.net.

Shahjahan Afzal

When a three – year – old baby lost his hand after getting struck into a motor cycle wheel, little did his parents realize that it would be reconstructed?

With his hand torn apart, bleeding profusely and in acute pain, the child was taken to Shair e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura.

After a mammoth fourteen – hour surgery, a team of Surgeons including Dr. Mir Mohsin, Dr. Haroon led by Head of the Department (HOD) Plastic Surgery, SKIMS Dr. Adil Hafeez, successfully reconstructed the hand.

“Usually small children are a challenge for these kinds of surgeries as the vessel size and tissues are very delicate and small but all this becomes possible by proper expertise and the availability of high end equipment like operating microscopes, micro instruments and delicate sutures, Dr. Adil Hafeez told themandate.net.

Director SKIMS, Dr. Omar Javed Shah congratulated the department for successfully conducting the surgery and said SKIMS has taken a lead in conducting challenging procedures.

“Re-Implantation surgery of a hand is a challenge world over, as the hand is one of the Primary Organs to function in the body. Loss of hand can lead to a severe disability as well as loss of earning capacity of an individual”, Dr Shah added.