Nazia Nadeem was serving her family in the outskirts of Pakistani city Peshawar when a blind bullet of an AK-47 rifle struck her in the chest. BBC quoting her as saying that she felt a sharp thing smashing into her chest and then fell down on earth. She was rushed to a local Hospital in Peshawar where a major surgery was conducted. She was told that the bullet cannot be removed but the bleeding has been controlled. After the surgery, she constantly remained under severe pain in her chest.
According to her husband Mr. Nadeem; the pain was so unbearable that she would fall unconscious. He told BBC that he took her wife to almost every doctor in Peshawar. Mr. Nadeem works in Karachi and had take leave for the treatment of her wife. Finally, he was advised to consult Dr. Zahid Ali Shah who is known for such difficult surgeries.
Dr. Zahid Ali Shah is a professor Doctor in Ayub Teaching Hospital. He told Mr. Nadeem that this operation is extremely risky and unique of its kind. Dr. Zahid Ali Shah had conducted several such operations including a child whose heart was struck by a bullet. The child was still carrying the bullet in the heart when he was brought to Dr. Zahid.
According to Dr. Zahid, he did not find the bullet where he was expecting it around the heart. He told BBC that he was also not expecting that the operation will last for 5 long hours. Dr. Zahid said that when they conducted an X-ray, they saw the bullet moving with the heartbeat. Dr. Zahid says that he was astonishingly surprised to see the bullet in the heart while moving with the heartbeat. In fact, the woman was living on the verge of volcano, she was just tasting a certain death every moment.
Dr. Zahid said: “I was assisted by an expert anesthesia specialist. I slowly and carefully started operation into the Right Ventricle. Usually, Cardiac Surgeons use regulators to control the heart but I did not have such a facility and had to operate along the heartbeat while working in the fragile and complicated veins tissues”
Dr. Zahid said that his first two attempts failed but in his third attempt, he could manage to reach the bullet and remove it. He explained that after removing the bullet, the patient’s heart declined in heartbeat rate whereas it had sucked a bag of blood at the same time. “The last 15 minutes after removing the bullet were so critical,” Dr. Zahid said.
“I put my everything at stack to save the life of my patient” Dr. Zahid reminded me while saying this
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