Ending anxiety of the animal lovers and others over the injured leg of the equine Shaktimaan, the animal was successfully operated upon on Tuesday. Dehradun SSP Sadanand Date said that Dr Arup Kumar Das professor, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology and his team of four doctors, including CVO Rakesh Negi, had done the surgery for three hours. The leg was not amputated as apprehended, though the horse required proper post- operative care, said the vets.
Doctors had performed external skeletal fixation which included removal of small butterfly chips under general anesthesia. The vets informed that it was compound and communicated fracture at distal left metatarsal bone of hind limb.