Hyderabad woman hacked by dad undergoes marathon operation

HYDERABAD: A few hours after the newly-wed inter-caste couple, Madhavi and Sandeep, were attacked by her father in the city on Wednesday, the woman was shifted to a city hospital here for a marathon

surgery

that went on for over seven hours.


Though Madhavi was taken off the

ventilator

support on Thursday afternoon, the hospital officials said that she needs to stay in ICU for further monitoring.

“When Madhavi was shifted to the hospital [at around 5.35pm], she had already lost a lot of blood and her Haemoglobin was 3 gm%. She was in hypovolemic shock. Our main aim was to stop the bleeding and save her. We rushed her to surgery after a CT scan,” said Dr Ravi Suman Reddy, senior neuro-surgeon at Yashoda Hospital.

Doctors said, she was provided four units of blood during surgery. Madhavi had sustained several injuries on the left side of the angle of the mouth, skull, neck and left forearm. When she was brought her blood pressure was very low and her left hand was nearly amputated and hanging by the skin. “Madhavi sustained a deep laceration of 15cm X 5cm on the left side of the face, splitting her ear, neck and the nape of the neck. Four major surgeries were conducted to reconstruct the facial nerves, blood vessels, ear and muscles. In the left hand, blood vessels, nerves, tendons and muscles were reconstructed and the bones fixed,” said Dr Rambabu N, senior plastic surgeon, Yashoda Hospital. Post-surgery, she was kept on mechanical ventilatory support and shifted to the surgical ICU.