DOCTORS RECONSTRUCT GIRL’S EAR WITH RIB BONES, ARM SKIN

LUCKNOW : Doctors of the plastic surgery department at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) reconstructed the ear of a 13-year-old girl that she had lost in an accident at her native place in Gonda two years ago.

The process was done with a method under which the organ was first grown in the arm and then placed on the side of the head. Explaining the method, head of plastic surgery department Dr Brijesh Mishra said, “The method we used is called a pre-laminated radial forearm free flap which was selected for reconstruction of the ear as in her condition it was difficult to use conventional methods.”

In plastic surgery, skin from one part of the body is taken to repair the loss in another part. When the skin and the organ of one part are damaged to an extent that repair is not possible, skin is taken from other parts and also the organ is made from another part as was done in this case.

“We took soft bones from the ribs to give shape to ear,” said Dr Mishra. The ear was grown under the arm skin for three months before being finally operated at the correct place on the side of the head.

“The girl will have to come for follow-up. She needs another surgery for the eyebrow and we will also make sure the ear made grows normally,” he added.

LUCKNOW: The Ayodhya police on Monday dropped sedition charges against a group of Saket Post Graduate College students following investigation, a police officer said. The move comes days after the students were accused of raising “azaadi” slogans during a protest in which they demanded students’ union polls at the institution.

“After investigation, sedition charges have been dropped against the students as no evidence was found to substantiate them,” said Ashutosh Mishra, station officer of the kotwali police station in Ayodhya.

FIR was lodged against 19 students of the Saket PG College, Ayodhya, at the kotwali police station on December 23 for allegedly raising “azaadi” slogans on the college campus

during the protest on December 16.

ND Pandey, the principal of the college, had lodged an FIR against 13 students at the kotwali police station on December 23.

Thereafter, the station officer lodged another FIR against six more students the same day after investigation.

The police booked the students under Sections 124A (sedition), 147 (rioting), 353 (assault on public servant), 427 (causing damage to property), 506 (offence of criminal intimidation) and other sections of the Indian Penal Code. Section 124A has now been dropped from the FIRs.

Students Sumit Tewari, Sheshnarayan Pandey, Imran Hashmi, Sathvik Pandey, Mohit Yadav, Manoj Mishra were among those named in the FIR.

The students had denied the sedition charge and claimed they were only demanding azaadi (freedom) from the principal and the “anti-student policies” of the college.

The college management has now announced the students’ union election on February 10 next year and constituted a committee for conducting the poll.

According to the college management, the election will be held in accordance with the recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee. Dr Faujdar Yadav has been appointed the election officer.

No outsider will be allowed to enter the college and police have been deployed on the campus as a precautionary measure.