Mumbai blasts: 2 days on, will he wake up?

A carpenter by profession, Dadar blast victim Mankeshwar Vishwakarma, 28, is still battling for his life in the neurosurgical ICU of KEM Hospital.

Sion resident Vishwakarma suffered a broken skull and other wounds in the blast. Top neurosurgeons operated on him on Wednesday. Vishwakarma is still unconscious.

On Wednesday night, prior to the surgery, Vishwakarma had lost sensation in both pairs of limbs.

An official told DNA, “We are feeding him via a tube attached to his throat and he has regained sensation in his right limbs. His condition was very critical as his skull bone was hit by some object and fractured badly. Pieces of bone went deep inside the brain. He was bleeding profusely and lost almost all his blood.”

One of the neurosurgeons,  who operated on Vishwakarma, explained, “Due to severe loss of blood, all systems in his body came to a standstill. This condition is called hypovolemic shock. We manually removed all the broken pieces of bones which had gone deep inside the brain with forceps. Then, a badly damaged portion of the frontal was also removed, after which all the layers of the brain were stitched.”

According to doctors, other parts of Vishwakarma’s brain also showed swelling.
“We are giving steroids but the brain will take time to heal, that too, naturally. It is likely that his speech and memory will suffer,” said another doctor.