IFP - In a rare surgery conducted in the quake-hit areas in western Iran, a number of Iranian scientists successfully reattached the right hand of a seven-year-old boy whose hand had been cut off from wrist.





The boy from Sarpol-e Zahab underwent the free-of-charge replantation surgery in Kermanshah�s Bisotoon Hospital, a Farsi report by IRNA said.

The four-hour surgery was conducted successfully by surgeons Afshin Qassemi and Keikhosrow Mardanpour.

�During the complicated surgery, we fortunately managed to completely sew back the right hand of the boy from Sarpol-e Zahab,� Mardanpour said.

According to him, the doctors at Bisotoon�s private hospital conduct several free-of-charge surgeries on a daily basis as part of their efforts to offer services to the victims of the recent deadly quake in Iran.

The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that rattled western Iran on Sunday was the deadliest in the world in 2017 with over 400 fatalities. The epicentre of the quake was located along a 1,500-kilometre fault line on the border between Iran and Iraq where the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide.