Vietnamese doctors save 12-year-old child with gunshot wound in head
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 15:05 GMT+7
Doctors at the Central Highlands General Hospital recently received and effectively conducted emergency surgery on a 12-year-old patient from Dak Lak Province’s Ea Kar District who sustained a gunshot wound in the head, doctor Trinh Hong Nhut, deputy director of the hospital, said on Tuesday.
The hospital admitted the patient in a deep coma at about 6:00 pm on Monday.
His family said that he got the gunshot from a homemade gun when he was at his friend’s house after school.
Doctor Huynh Nhu Dong, head of the department of neurosurgery at the Central Highlands General Hospital, said the patient suffered a traumatic brain injury, temporal bone fractures, subdural hematoma, brain contusion, and cerebral hemorrhage.
Doctors carried out an emergency surgery, which took over three hours, and removed a bullet measuring 4 x 4 millimeters.
The child can move his hands and legs after the surgery and is in further care.
The Central Highlands General Hospital kept the bullet to serve a police investigation into the case.
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