Doctors reattach Dubai woman's fingers lost during Diwali

While she was attending a Diwali ceremony someone put a firecracker in her hand as a joke.

Doctors from Rashid Hospital reattached a woman's three fingers which she lost in a firecracker incident during the Diwali celebrations in October.

Dr Khalid Al Awadhi, consultant hand and plastic surgeon and head of the hand surgery unit at Rashid Hospital said the woman, who is in her late 30s, arrived at the hospital's ER in great pain.

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"While she was attending a Diwali ceremony someone put a firecracker in her hand as a joke. The lady did not react fast so it exploded in her hand causing her to lose her thumb and two fingers along with their skin."

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Dr Al Awadhi said the women lost the thumb, ring finger and middle finger of her right hand. He said the woman was immediately sent to the operation theatre where her thumb was reattached following a five-hour surgery. "After two days we also reattached her two fingers and took skin from her abdomen to cover them," he said.

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