Rare surgery brings youth back to life

Subash’s liver, stomach and intestines had moved into his chest cavity through a rupture in diaphragm

Three weeks after a rare surgery in Kochi that saved his life and moved his abdominal organs from the chest cavity back into the abdomen, 33-year-old Subash is glad that he can breathe comfortably again. His ordeal began six years ago when a newly-wed Subash met with an accident while working in Dubai. Hit by a truck and dragged by the moving vehicle, he was left paralysed in both legs when the nerves and vertebrae in his back were damaged. His trauma, however, did not end there.