Man bobbits self ; RMS docs replant amputated organ
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 23 2018:
A team of doctors from the Department of Plastic Surgery, RIMS, undertook a grueling four hours long complicated operation to reattach the amputated penis of a 57 year old man.
A press release issued by the Medical Superintendent of RIMS Hospital, Professor Ch Arunkumar Singh, informed that the said man, a known psychiatric patient, had been taking medicines irregularly, as narrated by his family members.
On August 20, at around 5 pm, the man allegedly chopped off his penis using a sharp weapon and came out with severe bleeding from the cut stump.
He was immediately rushed to the nearby hospital but the doctors there referred him to a tertiary care hospital where he could avail the facilities of reattachment of his amputated private part by a plastic surgeon.
When the patient arrived at RIMS, it was already 7 pm and as such the doctors of Plastic Surgery Department were immediately called to see the patient in the Casualty Department and do the needful.
It continued that the doctors realised that being a clean cut wound, it was amenable to join the two cut parts by microsurgical anastomoses of the arteries and veins, along with repair of the urethra (urine channel).
By 8 pm, the 57 year old man was wheeled into the Operation Theatre where the doctors meticulously dissected the cut ends to identify the blood vessels (arteries and veins separately).
Through a painstaking four and a half hour long operation, the dedicated team of plastic surgery doctors were finally able to reattach the amputated penis successfully, it added.