A machine crushed three of his fingers and left him with fourth-degree burns. For anyone, that would have been the end of his right hand. For the surgeons at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, it was only the beginning of a solution as strange as it was brilliant. 🖐️
Instead of amputating, they decided to temporarily sew the damaged fingers to the abdomen of the young man from Kiryat Malachi. The reason? To keep the blood supply alive while the tissue healed, using the skin of the abdomen as a biological bridge between life and total loss.
A month later, a second surgery took place, and with it came the almost complete recovery of movement in all three fingers. Today, his hand tells a story that medicine made possible when all seemed lost. 💪
