Nothing short of a miracle
The groundbreaking surgery that saved the life of
a paraquat poison victim:
When life flowed unexpectedly into the dying
veins of a young woman, poisoned by the highly toxic weedicide,
Paraquat, the ground breaking surgery, which saved her life was
justifiably hailed as ‘nothing short of a miracle’. And it continues
to be hailed a miracle several months later. The miracle unfolded in
a small sterile white walled operating theatre of a leading private
hospital in Colombo. The patient was a teenager - a 19 year old
school girl - who angered by her parents’ objection to her love
affair with a fellow classmate, had resorted to the ultimate form of
retaliation by attempting to end her life.
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