MAKKAH, 25 January 2005 — The right foot of a Keralite woman pilgrim was saved from being amputated when a quick corrective surgery was performed at the Mina General Hospital.
Dr. Ahmad Nasir Al-Bu-Isa, head of surgery department at the hospital, said that Mariam, wife of Umar of Thaliparamba, Kannur, was brought to the hospital by her son Abdullah after she suffered severe degloving in her right foot. Had she not been rushed to the hospital her leg would have developed gangrene necessitating amputation.
According to Abdullah, who works as a janitor in a school in Jeddah, the injury was caused by a small bus that ran over her feet while she was walking with her group of pilgrims on their way to their camp.
The surgery was performed free of charge and the woman was taken to Mount Arafat to do her Haj.
Omar, who works as a janitor at a private school in Jeddah, thanked the hospital for its kind gesture.
