Indian Doctors Reattach Mob Victim's Penis After Seven-Hour Surgery
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An Indian man who was attacked and mutilated by a group of people with a grudge had successful seven-hour penis-reattachment surgery, a news report said Sunday.
The unidentified 28-year-old man was assaulted in an unidentified town about 125 miles from New Delhi, the Times of India reported.
Despite taking nearly six hours to reach a hospital in New Delhi, doctors were able to reattach the severed organ because it was properly preserved in ice after the attack.
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The surgery lasted seven hours, the report quoted Dr. Aditya Agarwal, who performed the operation, as saying.
"I am able to do all the things a normal person does, and I am very grateful to the doctors," the man was quoted as saying.
He said he had an old dispute with his attackers.
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B.K. Rao, a top official at Sir Gangaram Hospital where the surgery took place, hailed the successful operation. "It has given back a young man his life and his social status," he said.