Thursday, November 29, 2007
KUALA LUMPUR: Angkasawan Major Dr Faiz Khaleed's dream of going into space is still intact. This follows a four-hour surgery to reattach eight tendons on his left wrist after he was slashed in an armed robbery in front of his house in Taman Mawar, Cheras, on Wednesday.A Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre team, headed by consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon Datuk Dr Zulkharnain Ismail, began performing the surgery at 2pm on Wednesday, 12 hours after the attack.Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who visited Dr Faiz at the medical centre yesterday, said the doctors managed to save his hand."He can move his fingers. He lost a lot of blood and sustained a deep wound close to the bone.
