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07-20-2003, 09:59 AM
Victim battles grievous injuries
DH News Service BANGALORE, July 19
A few days ago, a gynaecologist was grievously injured when the autorickshaw she was travelling in, hit a water supply valve on Airport Road near the junction of Viveknagar Main Road and toppled over.
With the valve jutting out of the road surface, two-wheeler riders and drivers of small vehicles like autorickshaws can miss it when a larger vehicle is just ahead of them. The fact that the valve is situated close to the footpath and at the curve of the road, a little before the traffic police umbrella, makes it all the more dangerous.
On Wednesday last, the auto driver missed the valve because it was hidden from his view by a bigger vehicle in front of him and the auto hit the valve and toppled over, injuring both the driver and Dr Amsaveni, the passenger. While the driver is believed to have escaped with minor injuries, Dr Amsaveni sustained severe injuries, including dislocation of the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae and partial spinal cord injury at the spot where the brain reaches down.
She also experienced a slight loss of sensation in her limbs, which, however, is improving now. Doctors at Hosmat who classified this as a high risk case, told Deccan Herald, "Damage to the spinal cord at the place where the patient has sustained injury, can lead to the person becoming a paraplegic and the patient stands to lose sensory and motor movements in limbs. Bowel movements too are affected. But timely surgical intervention can salvage the situation." A team of doctors, including neurosurgeon Dr Thimmappa Hegde, Dr Arvind Bhathija and Dr Madhusadan will be performing a cervical fusion surgery using instrumentation on Monday. The procedure is expected to last about seven hours.
A relative of the patient said the place where the auto toppled over is accident prone. He questioned the responsibility of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) which has left the valve out in the open with no concern for public safety.
When contacted BWSSB officials said the valve is an old one which was under the footpath, but might have come under the road surface due to road widening works. They assured of speedy remedial action in getting the valve shifted to the footpath on a priority basis. Dr Amsaveni is a 42-year-old widow and runs a clinic which fetches her a modest income, to help support herself and her child.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july20/i8.asp
DH News Service BANGALORE, July 19
A few days ago, a gynaecologist was grievously injured when the autorickshaw she was travelling in, hit a water supply valve on Airport Road near the junction of Viveknagar Main Road and toppled over.
With the valve jutting out of the road surface, two-wheeler riders and drivers of small vehicles like autorickshaws can miss it when a larger vehicle is just ahead of them. The fact that the valve is situated close to the footpath and at the curve of the road, a little before the traffic police umbrella, makes it all the more dangerous.
On Wednesday last, the auto driver missed the valve because it was hidden from his view by a bigger vehicle in front of him and the auto hit the valve and toppled over, injuring both the driver and Dr Amsaveni, the passenger. While the driver is believed to have escaped with minor injuries, Dr Amsaveni sustained severe injuries, including dislocation of the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae and partial spinal cord injury at the spot where the brain reaches down.
She also experienced a slight loss of sensation in her limbs, which, however, is improving now. Doctors at Hosmat who classified this as a high risk case, told Deccan Herald, "Damage to the spinal cord at the place where the patient has sustained injury, can lead to the person becoming a paraplegic and the patient stands to lose sensory and motor movements in limbs. Bowel movements too are affected. But timely surgical intervention can salvage the situation." A team of doctors, including neurosurgeon Dr Thimmappa Hegde, Dr Arvind Bhathija and Dr Madhusadan will be performing a cervical fusion surgery using instrumentation on Monday. The procedure is expected to last about seven hours.
A relative of the patient said the place where the auto toppled over is accident prone. He questioned the responsibility of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) which has left the valve out in the open with no concern for public safety.
When contacted BWSSB officials said the valve is an old one which was under the footpath, but might have come under the road surface due to road widening works. They assured of speedy remedial action in getting the valve shifted to the footpath on a priority basis. Dr Amsaveni is a 42-year-old widow and runs a clinic which fetches her a modest income, to help support herself and her child.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/july20/i8.asp