‘Dead’ boy, who worked at a stall at Opera House, recalls the day his life changed for the worse. He now prepares to face life without a foot.
As hospitals are flooded with burn victims, KEM doctors gear up to attend a workshop for efficient handling of emergency situations.
Dinesh Harikishore Majhi, who was believed to have died in bomb explosion on Wednesday in the city, is alive. Yet the feeling of being alive has still not sunk in him, the explosion now has snatched away his ability to stand on his feet.
A native from Bihar, he has lost his right leg in the blast near the Panchratna building at Opera House. He has miraculously survived the mishap with a fractured left leg, right hand and a broken back.
“It was that single step that took my legs away from me forever. I was about to peel bananas and had gone to collect them near my stall. I thought it must be kept somewhere close to the stall and went ahead. That was the last time I was on my feet,” said Majhi.
He was later taken to Saifee Hospital and was admitted to the ICU. “I don’t remember what it was. I felt an immense force jolting me and throwing me instantly on ground. I went numb. There was a stinging feeling of death beckoning me, he recounts.
A team of 11 orthopedic experts and 15 internal medical staff of the hospital operated on him. “His right limb was partially amputated in the blasts and his arteries were exposed, so we could not save his limb. We performed a below the knee amputation on him,” said Dr SJ Bapai, assistant director of the hospital.
“It was a very complicated case. We had to save the boy by a surgery although the limb could not have been saved,” added, Dr Rajesh Dharia, joint replacement surgeon who was one of the many operating on Majhi.
Majhi used to work for a stall at Opera House, which used to make banana wafers. He had come to the city a month ago. Like several who come to the maximum city, he too wanted to earn a living and support his widow mother in his village. “I never wanted to come here. I was happy in my village. Although I earned peanuts but I was content to have my mother with me,” he added.
Ironically it was on his mother’s insistence that the teen had come to the city. “My father passed away when I was an infant. I could not decline when I mother asked me to earn more money for myself and her,” he wept.
Majhi is a standard IV dropout. As he prepares to live life on a single foot, Majhi is not even aware of any relief fund announced by the CM for blast victims. All he wants now is to leave for his hometown, without any money. Prime minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi too had visited Majhi when they reviewed the condition of blast victims.
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