A Roadside Operation

The life of a nine-year old boy was hanging by a thread in June 1990.

Philip Byrne was spending his holidays with an aunt in Dublin, Ireland. While riding his bicycle to a carnival he was hit by a car. He was left lying in the road, badly injured – with internal injuries that could have cost him his life. By extraordinary coincidence a group of surgeons were travelling in the car behind. They operated on the boy on the spot using a Swiss pocket-knife and attached a drainage tube for the blood.

Philip has these doctors and the Victorinox knife to thank for saving his life.

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