Reconstructive surgeries, organ transplant: How a migrant worker spent 7 years in hospital following a workplace accident
At 30, Rezaa Mohammad Salim has been through much more than others his age.
As the only son in a family of four, Rezaa travelled to Singapore in 2012 to work so that he could support his family in Bangladesh.
In 2016, however, he suffered a devastating injury after he was crushed between a crane and an iron pipe at the shipyard where he worked.
The freak accident destroyed the migrant worker's abdomen, and nearly killed him.
He was admitted to the National University Hospital (NUH), where he would spend the next seven years in a high-dependency ward.
«When he came to us, he was losing blood very rapidly in the stomach, and the entire lot of his intestines was severely damaged,» Adjunct Assistant Professor Raj Menon, Centre Director of National University Centre for Trauma, told AsiaOne in an interview on Wednesday (July 3).
The young man was immediately rushed into the operating theatre, where Dr Raj and a team of surgeons helped to stop the bleeding.
«It was a catastrophic injury to his abdomen. In many cases, not many could have survived that kind of injury,» said Dr Raj.