AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2004
Vic: Microsurgeons work to reattach severed hand
Doctors at a Melbourne hospital are working to reattach a woman's hand after it was
severed in a workplace accident.
The woman was working at a lattice factory in Dandenong when she severed her right
hand about 10 am (AEST) today.
Ambulance service spokesman JAMES HOWE says paramedics treated the woman at the scene
before she was taken to St Vincents hospital.
A hospital spokesman says a team of three microsurgeons, specialist anaesthetists and
theatre technicians are working to reattach the woman's hand.
She's aged in her mid 50s.
AAP RTV clm/dk/mj/rp
KEYWORD: HAND (MELBOURNE)
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