Chinese man has left foot attached to right leg in bid to save limb

A hospital in China has sewn the left foot of a patient on to his right leg in a bid to save both the foot itself and his left limb.

The patient, named as Mr Ma, had the surgery in Zhengzhou, in central China, following a work accident two weeks ago which badly damaged his left leg.



It appears that doctors felt that the infected wound in the leg would have ultimately led to amputating the foot and leaving the limb 7in shorter - so decided to make their radical decision.

They decided to attach the left foot to the right leg and use that limb's arteries and veins to keep the foot healthy thereby leaving the patient, for the moment, with two right feet. Further surgery will then reattach the foot back to the patient's left leg in around a month's time.