Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Sarah Lumley

Construction worker's miracle survival after being impaled in the HEAD with rod

These gruesome pictures show a man who miraculously after a long iron road speared through his entire head.

Construction worker Sanjay Bahe, 21, was doing repair work at a construction site when he fell down a well and the rod pierced straight through his head.

The young man, from Balaghat in central India, was rushed to B.J. Hospital in nearby Gondia, after the iron rod pierced from the right temporal region of his brain to the left frontal region.

Sanjay Bahe, who had an iron rod pierce his head (India Photo Agency / SWNS)

Three killed as plane hits helicopter at 'world's most dangerous airport'  

A team of neurosurgeouns, lead by Dr Pramod Giri, rushed to perform a gruelling 90-minute surgery to remove the rod, as Sanjay went into a crucial state of hypotension, or low blood pressure .

Sanjay was resuscitated and taken for surgery.

Miraculously, after an hour and a half of surgery, the rod was removed safely with hardly any bleeding or injury to the surrounding area.

Incredibly, he survived the brutal injury (India Photo Agency / SWNS)

Orpington 'hit-and-run': Boy, 11, fighting for his life after being hit by car

Sanjay's main venous sinus to the brain was preserved by just millimetres, said Dr Giri.

He said: "Giving anaesthesia to the patient in such cases is difficult. We did right by positioning the intubation to maintain vital channels in the brain during the operation."

"I performed the surgery with all caution so that damage to the surrounding structures shouldn’t happen."

An x-ray of the impaled rod (India Photo Agency / SWNS)

The doctor added: "One complication that can take place in such cases is causing meningitis to the patient.

"Fortunately, he is doing fine after the surgery, and we are also taking care to prevent meningitis."

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.