12-year-old archer Shivangini Gohain hospitalised after arrow pierces her neck accidentally© hindustantimes.com

12-year-old archer Shivangini Gohain hospitalised after arrow pierces her neck accidentally

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Shivangini Gohain, the 12-year-old Assam archer who was injured when an arrow shot accidentally during a training session pierced her neck and upper body, underwent a surgery on Friday and a 15-cm part of the metal rod removed from her body. A senior doctor at the AIIMS trauma centre said Gohain, who had been brought here from Dibrugarh in Assam on Thursday night, was stable after the “very complex surgery”.

The arrow, he added, had gone through her shoulder bone and damaged part of the neck, vertebra and the left lung. Gohain has now been shifted to the ICU for observation. The arrow, he explained, was touching the vertebral artery which supplies blood to the brain stem.

About 15 cm of the arrow was removed from her upper body. “Around 0.5 cm of the arrow was in front of the spinal cord. It was a very complex surgery,” he said. The operation, which lasted three-and-half hours, was performed by a team led by Dr Deepak Gupta, professor of neurosurgery at AIIMS.