Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai underwent successful surgery after 17 years
Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai underwent successful surgery after 17 years
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On Friday, Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai underwent successful surgery after Seventeen years when he was shot in the neck, to remove the bullet.

Rai, who walks with a limp, is likely to see an improvement in his stride after rehabilitation at Hyderabad and Chennai.

During a student agitation in Lucknow for “decriminalisation of student politics,” The politician was shot.

According to Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in Sarita Vihar where the surgery was performed, he had remained paralysed, for months after that.

Wishing the minister early recovery, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the hospital separately to meet him.

According to the medical bulletin issued by the hospital, Rai had suffered a gunshot wound in his neck in 1999 during a student agitation at Lucknow University “after which he had complete quadriplegia for one and a half years”.

Three years after the incident, he was able to walk.

“He has had a bullet in his neck from 1999, which lodged at the back of his neck and over time had migrated to burrow under the skin at the back of the upper thoracic spine”, according to the medical bulletin issued by the hospital

“However, as the projectile was so easy to access and remove with anaesthesia, the decision was taken to remove the lead bullet from his body,” added the hospital.

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