13-year-old abandoned Varanasi boy to undergo 28-hour surgery Thirteen years after a newborn boy was abandoned in the fields near Varanasi and was mauled by a wild animal, 12 doctors from the Bombay Hospital performed a path-breaking surgery to finally reconstruct his once-tattered right leg. Boy from Varanasi in UP had undergone a marathon 28-hour supra major surgery on his right leg. Two anesthetists, two pediatric surgeons, three orthopedic surgeons, five plastic surgeons, and 12 nursing staff were part of the team to conduct the surgery. Within hours of being born, with his umbilical cord still attached to him, Manish was abandoned in a sugarcane field in a village near Varanasi.
His entire thigh and calf muscle of his right leg were torn apart by, probably, a wild dog. A farm laborer saw him lying in a pool of blood and took him to the hospital. From then onward started Manish's…
