Man loses 3 fingers as cellphone explodes

By Reya Mehrotra

The 18-yr-old building worker used to be on a video call all the way through his lunch wreck

An eighteen-year-old teen from Bihar lost 3 hands of his hand in a freak phone blast accident. He used to be on a video call as the telephone used to be charging.

The teen used to be rushed to Vydehi Hospital for emergency care but the docs could now not save 3 hands of his left hand.

The incident took place on April 11, when the victim, a daily salary worker at a building web site in Whitefield used to be on a video call on his Jio phone whilst having lunch along with his co-workers. The phone used to be being charged and all at once, his friends had been shocked to peer a blast.

When they realized it used to be the telephone, they noticed that the victim used to be screaming with fright and ache. His heart finger and his ring finger had been severed from his hand and blood had splattered all around.

The victim’s colleagues rushed him to the within sight Vydehi Hospital at 4 pm and he used to be taken immediately into the emergency ward. The docs said that they had been in shock too since this used to be the first case of a phone blast within the town, leading to such severe injuries.

The victim used to be shifted to the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department as his hand needed surgical procedure. Though he had lost a lot of blood, they'd tried to stem additional loss. The surgical procedure used to be carried out through Dr Apoorva SS, Dr Chaithanya and Dr Vashisht Dikshit from the Department of Plastic Surgery, Vydehi Hospital, with simply 100 ml blood loss.

Dr Vashisht told Bangalore Mirror: “We started the surgical procedure handiest through nine pm since we needed him to be on an empty abdomen for no less than six hours earlier than surgical procedure. The surgical procedure lasted 3 hours. We tried to save lots of his index finger but it surely used to be utterly shattered and had to be removed too. He is doing well now and continues to be within the hospital.”

To quilt the wounded house from where 3 of his hands had been removed, the docs removed a patch of skin from his groin house and coated his wounded hand. Dr Vashisht added, “It used to be essential to cover the wounded house, else he used to be at a chance of catching infections.” Police officials from Whitefield Police station have recorded his commentary as this is a medico-legal case.

Doctors plan to discharge the victim this week and he must come for a evaluate and follow up in a while.