A simple plastic surgery of the middle finger proved to be life-threatening for a five-year-old boy from Bengaluru. The child slipped into coma in the course of the operation following a lung puncture. The boy had injured the ring and middle fingers of his left hand at school on June 10, after which his parents had admitted him to a nearby hospital. They were told that as the ring finger could not be saved, a plastic surgery needs to be carried out to save his middle finger. The boy’s father further says, “We were told that the surgery would take 10-15 minutes.
But we had no news of him for the next two hours. The doctor who came out of the OT said he had slipped into a coma and his lungs had to be punctured to save him.” The family blames hospital authorities for the child’s condition. “According to the doctors, the child has some heart complication which is not true. Our son was fine…
