A SCHOOGIRL’S neck had her impaled by a splintered tree branch after a horror fall from a garage roof – but miraculously survived.
The six inch piece of wood narrowly missed her windpipe, oesophagus and major blood vessels before she was rushed to hospital in Rostov, .
A Russian schoolgirl miraculously survived after a 6-inch giant splinter pierced her neck Credit: East2West
Doctors Alexey Romaneyev, Vyacheslav Vasilyev and Anton Shtarev, who performed the life-saving operation Credit: East2West
The girl underwent emergency life-saving surgery at the city’s Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital and thankfully pulled through.
A disturbing picture shows the full horror of the giant splinter that punctured the girl’s neck from back to front.
Surgeon Anton Shtarev said: “We carried out primary surgical treatment of the wound and removed the foreign body.
“We managed to extract the branch without damaging the closely adjacent internal organs.”
The Rostov Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital, where they saved the girl’s life Credit: East2West
He admitted that he and his fellow doctors Alexey Romaneyev and Vyacheslav Vasilyev were anxious when they first saw the traumatised girl.
“The most frightening thing is taking a child into surgery without fully understanding what you are going to see,” he said.
“The position of the foreign body was also critical.
“Removing it with absolute precision, without touching the adjacent organs, was not an easy task. We were worried.”
But he added: “Because the operation was performed early, the soft tissues were not inflamed and the subsequent healing passed without complications.”
A spokesman described the surgeons’ precision as “jeweller-like”.
The girl still has lengthy rehabilitation to go through and treatment to minimise the scarring.
Parents in the region have been warned to “be attentive to your children and teach them healthy caution” during the school holidays.
It comes after from a tower block in St. Petersburg, after heroes caught him in a coat.
The 18-month-old survived the horror fall because of quick-thinking locals, who stretched a stretched out a coat like a trampoline, catching him milliseconds before he would have smashed into the ground.
Shocking footage showed the tot teetering on the window sill of a residential block.
He dangled dangerously from the window, before losing his grip and plummeting towards the ground.
Miraculously, two nurses were stood nearby, and had noticed the toddler as he hung from the high window.
Olga Artemyeva acted fast and took off her coat.
She stretched it out to catch the toddler with Anna Kabashova.
Anna told local reporters: “We were acting on instinct. We didn’t know how to behave in such a situation.”
Witnesses said the toddler had been trying to open the top floor window for up to 20 minutes, with no adult in sight.
An elderly man coordinated the rescue effort from the ground, calling emergency services and directing those holding the coat.
Then came the scream: “He’s falling!”
Moments later there was a heavy thud as the child dropped like a stone and slammed into the outstretched coat, which tore apart under the force – and the child hit the snow beneath.
One of the heroic rescuers said: “The coat was torn to pieces — sleeves, lining, everything.”
Luckily, the boy was conscious – and crying.
He was wrapped in the remnants of the coat and rushed to the nearest clinic before being transferred to hospital, where he was later discharged.
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