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The soldier, Leandro Jose Luna, was patrolling in Arauca, when his colleague accidentally fired a grenade launcher and the projectile lodged itself in Luna's head.
Taking him by helicopter was too dangerous, so an ambulance transported the soldier to the capital Bogota, a journey of eight hours.
Doctors in the capital built an improvised operation theater in a car park, because of danger of the grenade exploding. But they managed to remove the weapon.
"Five minutes were decisive," the soldier's surgeon William Sanchez Maldonaldo told reporters. "If the grenade had exploded, there would have been a tragedy."
Meanwhile, the soldier's condition was described as stable, but doctors said he would need several rounds of surgery to get his face back to normal shape.
A grenade is defined as a small missile that contains an explosive or a chemical agent (tear gas, a flame or smoke producer). It can be thrown by hand or fired from a rifle or a launcher.
The crew at 4077 is so bored, Frank and Trapper play cards together, as Hawkeye writes his dad. A patient, Conway, who is also an ignorant bigot, wants "the right color" of blood used in his transfusion. A soldier comes into OR with a live grenade that was shot into his body; both patient and doctor survive. Margaret may be a royal pain, but she is always there to assist in the tough cases. At Happy Hour, Henry tells Father Mulcahy how he came to be drafted. The drunken duo decide to add some "color" to Conway's recovery. In Henry's office, Radar screens Blake home movies for Henry, Trapper and Hawkeye. Father Mulcahy boxes a few rounds as Hotlips and Frank practice some strange mating rituals. The 4077 monthly officers' meetings are an ongoing disaster, until they officially end the war. Conway gets a lesson about Dr. Charles Drew and he leaves the 4077 with a lot to think about.
If I was that surgeon , I would be in a bomb suit and you would need to pay me double
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