A Chinese hospital has made a pair of ‘pincers' for a patient whose hands were mangled in an industrial accident.
The worker, 18-year-old Wang Jin, got both his hands smashed and pulled off at the wrists because of a malfunctioning hammer machine on a night shift on December 11.
Panicking co-workers immediately sent him, along with the broken hands and severed fingers, to Xiang Ya Hospital in Changsha, capital of southern China's Hunan Province, taking five hours to arrive.
The 'pincers' were made by attaching the remaining, undamaged fingers to the patent's palms
As both severed hands were severely damaged in the powerful machine, doctors made the bold decision to maKe the patient a pair of new hands with the remaining palms and digits
Chief surgeons, including Dang Juyu, Wu Panfeng, Lu Bangbao, and Li Mingqing, attached the left little finger onto the right hand and, together with the remaining right thumb, Wang Jin's right hand
now has two fingers.
Then the team turned their attention to the left hand. They removed the middle finger, but kept the
index finger and ring finger to make another pincer, which was attached to the left wrist.
Intricate: The surgeons said most challenging part of the nine hour operation was rebuilding Mr Wang's bone structure
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