Thirteen years ago, a 19-year-old Hong Kong man whose right hand was crushed by a machine making fishballs was rushed to a local hospital.
It was the man’s first day at his factory job and he had ended up losing four fingers, orthopaedic surgeon Dr Ho Pak-cheong recalled.
“He was only 19 years old and left with a thumb … no matter what [we] needed to figure out a way to help him,” he said.
Paramedics who helped the man were able to salvage the severed fingers and Dr Ho...
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