Doctors help teen who chopped off hand to cure Internet addiction

Source:JSTV Published: 2015-2-3 19:33:24

A 19-year-old boy in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, who chopped off his left hand with a cleaver in order to cure his Internet addiction, is recovering after doctors were able to successfully reattach it.

Xiao Wang (pseudonym), a high school senior, performed the grizzly amputation on a stone bench next to a bus stop at around 1 am Sunday with a cleaver taken from his kitchen.

He then hailed a cab and headed for the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, where doctors conducted 10 hours of emergency surgery to reattach Xiao Wang's severed member.

However, doctors said it would take a week to know whether the hand would be saved.

The severity of Xiao Wang's heavy-handed deed became known when the taxi driver called police, who then informed his parents and teachers. "He chopped off his hand to show his determination to end his Internet addiction," one of his teachers was quoted as saying.

Pressed by his parents, Wang finally told police the location of his left hand.



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