RAIPUR: Shocked and frustrated over her defeat in the recently concluded panchayat polls in

, a 45-year-old

from a village in Raipur district chopped her

with an axe. The hand was completely severed from the wrist, which the doctors of government multi-specialty

(DKS)hospital replanted after an extensive seven-hour surgery.

The incident took place early on February 8, after results of panchayat elections to Kukra village of Aarang block was announced.

wife of

contested the panchayat elections and lost. The patient is stable and recovering said treating doctors.

Vijendra said that after losing the elections Kamla went into depression and she woke early morning hours on February 8. Driven by desperation, she moved out of her house and chopped her wrist with an axe, he said. When Vijendra woke up and did not find Kamla in the room he rushed outside the house and found her in an inconsolable condition and her wrist lying on the ground.

Kamla was consoled by the neighbours and meanwhile Vijendra called for ambulance service, and the medical attendants shifted the injured woman and her severed wrist to DKS hospital on advice of doctors.

At the hospital doctors carried out an emergency replant surgery attaching the wrist to the hand under the guidance of ortho surgeon Dr A Tiwari, Plastic surgeon Dr KN Dhruv and anesthesiologist Dr Rupesh. Doctors told TOI that it was a challenging surgery as Kamla was brought almost five hours after the incident. A detached limb can be replanted within six hours of the incident, but the doctors decided to take the risk and go for the replant surgery. The bones, nerves and fibers were attached to join the hand with arm.

Talking to TOI, DKS deputy superintendent Dr Hemant Sharma said, “The patient has a medical history of psychological issue and gets aggressive. Post-surgery the patient was still under trauma. The surgery was successful.”

At the hospital doctors carried out an emergency replant surgery attaching the wrist to the hand under the guidance of ortho surgeon Dr A Tiwari, Plastic surgeon Dr KN Dhruv and anesthesiologist Dr Rupesh. Doctors told TOI that it was a challenging surgery as Kamla was brought almost five hours after the incident. A detached limb can be replanted within six hours of the incident, but the doctors decided to take the risk and go for the replant surgery. The bones, nerves and fibers were attached to join the hand with arm.

Talking to TOI, DKS deputy superintendent Dr Hemant Sharma said, “The patient has a medical history of psychological issue and gets aggressive. Post-surgery the patient was still under trauma. The surgery was successful.”

Plastic surgeons have advised that if ever such an accident happens it is important to wash the severed limb/organ and to pack it in ice package and rush to hospital with patient within six hours.