Republic of Georgia National's Leg and Life Saved by Timely Treatment at Apollo Hospitals
His leg got caught in the chain of containers and crushed. Chennai : Apollo Hospitals, Asia’s largest and most trusted multi-specialty chain of hospitals, successfully completed a complicated Limb saving revascularization Procedure on a patient from Georgia early this month. The patient sustained crushed injury in his lower limb during his work on a cargo ship that was stationed near Chennai. (2nd from left) Dr Rajarajan Venketesan, senior consultant vascular surgeon Mr. Malkhaz Surmanidze, a 46-year-old from the Republic of Georgia and a vice captain of a cargo ship sustained an injury on his right leg on the 23.06.2020 while his vessel was at Chennai coast. His leg got caught in the chain of containers (where he would have lost his life which got prevented by pulling his leg from that) and crushed. The ship was docked, he was taken to a hospital close to the Chennai port and he was referred to Apollo Hospitals owing to his critical leg injury. The shifting to Apollo happe...