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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, June 15, 2017
Miraculous escape
2017-06-14
A coconut plucker who lost his grip and had a nasty fall onto a pointed
Gyridicilia stick which pierced through his left thigh, was later
operated at the Karapitiya hospital, and the wooden stick of about five
feet safely removed after a surgery which lasted about two and half
hours.
The victim Edirige Piyasiri (55) is the father of four children.
Plucking coconuts is his main livelihood. On the day of the incident
(12th June) he had plucked coconuts from 31 trees belonging to a
businessman of the area. He had then climbed onto another tree
continuing his routine, and while attempting to climb down from the tree
he had lost his grip, when the branch he was holding had given way, and
fell on a fence of Gyridicilia wood. With the impact of the fall a
stick pierced through his left thigh causing severe injuries to him. He
was first admitted to the Embilipitiya Hospital but later transferred to
the Karapitiya Hospital where he was subjected to an operation by the
Karapitiya Teaching Hospital's organ transplanting specialist, Doctor
Ranjuka Ubesiri.
The team of doctors at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital led by Dr.
Ubesiri had performed this operation lasting about two and half hours
and removed the wooden stick which had pierced through the left thigh of
Piyasiri. Dr. Ubesiri commenting on this rare experience said that
first he had to stop the blood circulation in the leg of the victim and
the wooden stick safely removed. The patient had narrowly been saved of
any damage to the main arteries. After the operation the blood
circulation of the patient is now normal. A MRI scan is to be done to
ascertain whether any damage had been caused to the respiratory track of
the patient.
He advised that in the event of a similar incident where the body is
pierced by sharp edged sticks, attempts should not be made to remove
them, as it might lead to a drain on the blood. (D. G. Sugathapala and Sumathipala Diyagahage)