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Article: Braveheart Supratim, impaled on iron bar, out of hospital
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- July 29, 2008
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New Delhi, July 29 -- Seventeen days after he defied death when he was impaled on an iron bar that pierced his liver, stomach and a lung, IT executive Supratim Dutta Tuesday walked out of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) - healthy and ready to carry on with life.
"His condition is very normal now and he is ready to go," said Biplab Mishra, the surgeon who led an eight-member team of doctors to operate upon the 23-year-old Dutta.
Describing the case as a "learning experience", Mishra said the possibility of an infection loomed but luckily no such problem was encountered.
"Since a five feet long iron ...