Doctors at the Advance Cardiac Institute at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College here have successfully repaired a 20-year-old youth's lung damaged by a bullet.
The victim from Lakhanpur in Surguja district was cleaning his air gun when it misfired. A bullet passed through the chest and hit the upper and lower part of the left lung, damaging it. This led to internal bleeding.
The bullet got embedded in the lungs, Dr Krishnakant Sahu, Head of the Heart Chest and Vascular Surgery Department, told the media on Thursday.
Dr Sahu said the patient was short of breath when he was brought to the hospital. Being in critical condition, his vitals were stabilized. The challenge as to remove the embedded bullet and repair the lungs.
He said the accurate position of the bullet was detected using a portable digital X-ray machine to reduce further damage to the lungs during operation.
The bullet, whose size was 8 mm x 4 mm, was removed. The damaged part of the lung was repaired. The young man has fully recovered now.