Thaindian News

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Tarsem Singh bitterly looks at his heavily-bandaged thighs when he comes out of long spells of unconsciousness at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. His wife Jaspal says he wants to know if nails and shrapnel are still embedded there.

Tarsem Singh, a car driver with a south Delhi family, was getting a gate pass for his employers when a powerful bomb concealed in a briefcase exploded outside a Delhi High Court gate Wednesday.

Thirteen people were killed over 90 injured in the blast.

The man collapsed in pain. He had severe injuries on both legs and is now on life support. He doesn’t know it as yet. If he lives, he will carry the metal pieces in his body for ever.

“He was in the queue for the pass. Doctors say he lost a lot of blood. When my husband talks to me, he says he can still feel the shock of sharp objects in the body,” a distraught Jaspal told IANS.

The mother of two says she has not slept since the terror attack. She is aware of the serious nature of her husband’s injuries.

“Some nails will remain inside,” she says, not making eye contact with the IANS reporter. “He should live, that’s all I want.”

Doctors say if the location of the “foreign body is deep inside”, it has to be left there considering the fear of “clinical dislodging” or damage to surrounding arteries and nerves.

“If they are long nails, we need to take them out. For the minute ones, it’s difficult to dig deep,” said Sandeep Saxena, head of accident and emergency department at the hospital.

The hospital received almost all the dead and the overwhelming bulk of the injured in the bomb attack, its staff working round-the-clock to save as many lives as possible.

It still has 23 patients injured in varying degrees.

The injured are more than grateful to the hospital for saving their lives.

“The doctors have been really helpful since day one. For my family, they are the saviours because of whom I am alive today,” says Alauddin, 40, who was injured in one of his legs.

“We talk of government hospitals being insensitive. I would ask people to come here and visit us,” said the man from Daryaganj in Old Delhi who had gone to the court to attend a hearing.