A woman has miraculously regained the use of her hand after it was completely severed by a coconut chopping machine.
Santha, 58, was working in a coconut oil factory when her left arm slipped into the machine and was chopped clean off.
Her quick-thinking colleagues rushed the woman — and her hand — to the hospital where surgeons spent seven hours painstakingly reattaching the appendage.
Six weeks since the surgery, she has regained 80 percent of its functionality and medics think she’ll eventually make a full recovery.
Dr. Krishnakumar, senior consultant at the head, plastic and reconstructive surgery department, at Aster MIMS hospital said: “It was the presence of mind displayed by Santha’s colleagues to bring the cut off palm in a bag of ice along with the patient was the crucial thing in this case.”
Santha, who did not want to reveal her last name, lost her hand in the factory in Iiritty, India, on January 12.
She spent 12 days in the hospital.