On the afternoon of July 5, Military Hospital 211, Gia Lai province said that the hospital's Social Working Group is strongly mobilizing donors to support a patient who suffered a particularly serious work accident.
Previously, on July 4, the hospital received a patient named Xuak (born in 1988, residing in Kdang commune) in critical condition when a right foot was severed. The patient was stunned and lost a lot of blood.
While weeding and clearing the garden with a cutting machine, the knife was broken and fired, causing Ms. Xuak's foot to break, the victim fell, and was in pain.
According to the leaders of Military Hospital 211, doctors urgently stopped the bleeding, washed the wound, and performed surgery to reconnect the limbs to the patient, hoping to help the patient recover better.
It is known that Ms. Xuak's family is in difficult circumstances, raising 5 young children, while her health insurance card has expired since 2020.
The Social Work Group of the 211 Military Hospital (address: 410 Pham Van Dong, Thong Nhat Ward, Gia Lai Province) is mobilizing and calling on benefactors to support and help the patient's family overcome difficulties, to receive care and treatment to stabilize their health.
Through the incident, doctors warned workers to be careful and have protective equipment when using a hand-held grass cutting machine with a machete.
The rotation speed is fast, when encountering hard rocks and iron, the cutting machine's plow job will break, causing injuries to the workers. Many cases of work accidents from this type of cutting machine.