This is the type of story you hear and just open your mouth in disbelief but Eduardo Leite, a 24-year old construction worker from Brazil is lucky to be alive after he survived a 6-foot metal bar that fell from above and pierced his head. The bar had fell from the fifth floor of a building under construction, went through Leite’s hard hat, entered the back of his skull and exited between his eyes, chief os staff at Rio de Janeiro’s Miguel Couto Hospital, Luiz Alexnadre Essinger said, adding: ‘It really was a miracle’ that Leite survived. The accident and surgery took place on Wednesday.
Doctors successfully withdrew the iron bar from Eduardo Leite’s skull during a five-hour surgery. ‘He was taken to the operating room, his skull was opened, they examined the brain and the surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from the front in the same direction it entered the brain.’ Essinger said. He said Leite was conscious when he arrived at the hospital and told him what had happened and that Leite was lucid and showed no negative consequences after the operation. ‘Today, he continues well, with few complaints for a five-hour-long surgery,’ Essinger said. ‘He says he feels little pain.’
‘They told me he was lying down (in the ambulance) with the bar pointing upward,’ said Leite’s wife, Lilian Regina da Silva Costa. Continuing, she said, ‘He was holding it and his face covered in blood. His look was as if nothing had happened. When he arrived he told the doctors he wasn’t feeling anything, no pain, nothing. It’s unbelievable.’
Ruy Monteiro, the hospital’s head of neurosurgery, told the Globo TV network that Leite escaped by just a few centimeters from losing one eye and becoming paralyzed on the left side of his body. He said the bar entered a ‘non-eloquent’ area of the brain, an area that doesn’t have a specific, major known function.
Leite is expected to remain hospitalized for at least two weeks. My question is, with our slow response to medical emergencies and disasters, would Leite have survived if this accident had taken place at a construction site in Nigeria?
He would have died.. The work would have killed him.
he will die because our doctors will not attend to him.
I hope 2 love agains
Certainly he would not survive it here, that’s why God will not allow it to happen here. Apart from technology, this is pure miracle, remember he said he felt no pain. God be praised.
God is omnipotent,he has done it and he will continue doing it for us
Am sure you have the answer to your question already. He would have died even before getting to the hospital, because we wont even be able to provide first aid.
This is good and lucky guy.
It’s really miraculos. Thank God for his life.
He wud av die if this event took place i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̥̅̊ Nigeria.Thank God he was wearing his personal protective equipment i.e the hard hat. How many constructn sites workers i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̥̅̊ Nigeria put on their site helmet? Heaven helps those who help themselves but I thank God for this miracle.
Thank God
If it were to happen in Nigeria, he would have died, except if God has a soft spot for him, he might even be lucky enough to get good samaritans to rush him to the hospital only to find out that the Doctors are on strike. Life has lil value in dis part of the world, we are only coping becos of God’s abundant grace.
In 9ja, he must die, fucked up doctors and angry nurse, that is while u are always ask to put on an headmet in a construction site. Saty ist. God I will forever serve u.
God is great. One is likely to conclude that the Man would have “died death” if such an accident had occurred here in our “native land Nigeria”, but who can predict our God? NOBODY.
if it were in nigeria… no need for medical attention. they should just take him from the site to cemetry for burial.
Horrible. He narrowly escaped death. I was shocked reading this.
This is terrible
This is hilarious
This is terrible