Eight-hour long microsurgery saves Mumbai driver's amputated thumb

Mumbai taxi driver Alinderpal Singh Alag’s thumb was reattached in an eight-hour microsurgery after his hand got trapped in a lift. Experts explain how prompt preservation of the amputated digit increases replantation success rates.

A 2019 report from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) has shown that India had the highest burden of traumatic amputations among 204 countries surveyed.