North Korean trooper: Surgeon says deserter 'resembled a broken container'
Seoul, South Korea South Korean specialist Lee Cook-Jong was at that point having a bustling day in Trauma Bay 1 when he got the call: A US Black Hawk helicopter was en route with a harmed trooper. However, it wasn't only any warrior.
"I was educated that he was seriously shot by North Koreans," Lee stated, remembering the mind boggling chain of occasions that brought North Korean deserter Oh Chong Song to his injury unit on November 13.
Lee says he went to meet his fundamentally harmed quiet on the helipad, only a couple of hundred feet from the cutting edge, US-demonstrated injury focus he keeps running at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital, Seoul.
The chopper was coming in quick, and for that, he says, he was grateful.
"His crucial signs were so flimsy, he was biting the dust of low circulatory strain, he was kicking the bucket of stun," Lee said.
"He resembled a broken container. We couldn't put enough blood into him."
Video gave by the Ajou University Trauma Center shows Oh being stacked off a helicopter.
The 24-year-old had been shot around five times by his kindred North Korean warriors as he made his challenging departure over the line that partitions North and South Korea.
Filled with slugs, he was dragged to security by South Korean troopers and floated near death amid the 25-minute carrier to doctor's facility.
What unfurled after the Black Hawk touched down was a nerve racking push to keep Oh alive that kept going over six hours - caught in video Lee imparted solely to CNN, with the authorization of the trooper.
Video gave by the Ajou University Trauma Center shows Oh being wheeled into an injury room.
Step by step battle
In the initial 30 minutes, after Oh was raced into Trauma Room One, Lee and his group attempted to keep Oh relaxing.
"He has one (projectile) through his correct knee joint; the other one is the tricep muscle territory on his arm, the third one was his back; chest and turning out from his shoulder," Lee said as he surveyed the video.
A x-beam indicates one of the slugs in Oh's body.
A x-beam indicates one of the slugs in Oh's body.
Be that as it may, the most exceedingly terrible was yet to come.
Amid a five-hour operation to expel a slug that had pierced Oh's digestion tracts, Lee experienced an inconvenience he's never found in his 20-year profession as a specialist: parasites.
Lee portrays attempting to repair no less than seven injuries in the deserter's punctured entrail while the white worms were squirming out of Oh's body.
"Everything was recolored with blood, yet the parasite was essentially an extremely white shading and this thick, enormous, long and, hard, this sort of thing was getting out from his entrail framework," Lee said.
The worms Lee expelled from Oh's body.
The worms Lee expelled from Oh's body.
Lee portrays Oh's key signs as so unsteady that a couple of times amid the difficult operation, he figured the turncoat would kick the bucket on the surgical table.
"It's a supernatural occurrence that he survived," Lee said.
All parasites were expelled from Oh's framework, some of them as long as 27 centimeters (more than 10 inches).
Intestinal worms are commonly transmitted through contact with dung or unwashed hands. The utilization of human manure on products and poor clean conditions can likewise help the transmission of parasitic pimples.
Lee seems to have become partial to Oh amid the weeks he's been treating him.
"I'm extremely glad for him. He fled from North Korea looking for freedom, substantially more opportunity. It's very simple to state, however it's extremely hard to get it going, so I respect him," Lee said.
Lee worked on Oh again two days after the fact for over three hours, and inside days of that, the deserter started a quick paced recuperation that has shocked even his specialists.
Lee Cook-Jong at the injury focus he keeps running at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital Seoul.
Lee Cook-Jong at the injury focus he keeps running at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital Seoul.
Strolling, talking
Gracious is strolling, talking and heading off to the lavatory autonomously. His condition, however steady, is as yet grave.
Entanglements from tuberculosis and hepatitis B keep on compromising his recuperation, particularly his liver capacity.
Gracious is likewise under mental care and prone to battle with post-horrible anxiety issue, Lee said.
He's been tormented by bad dreams, some of the time dreading he was still in North Korea, provoking Lee to hang the South Korean banner in his recuperation space to remind him he was sheltered.
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"He really asked me, 'is it extremely South Korea?' And I stated, 'observe that banner. Have you at any point seen that banner in North Korea?' "
It's hazy what's on the horizon. Gracious has told his specialist that he's occupied with contemplating law. Lee says he has no enthusiasm for going into the South Korean military, as different turncoats have done.
For the time being, however, his condition is still so sensitive that Lee says he revealed to South Korean authorities "solidly" that they needed to defer addressing Oh. As a fringe protect on dynamic obligation, he's probably going to have significant data on North Korea's military.
Dr. Lee Cook-Jong on the hospital's housetop helipad.
Dr. Lee Cook-Jong on the healing center's housetop helipad.
The South Korean government screens deserters for security dangers and runs resettlement projects to enable them to adjust and coordinate into South Korean culture - something that can be a difficult task.
Lee is defensive of his patient, and Oh stays under overwhelming security in the healing center so nothing can bargain his treatment.
"On the off chance that there's such a significant number of inquiries concerning his previous years in North Korea. It may influence his passionate status, so if he's in discouraged status, he will be unable to eat legitimately or recuperate appropriately," Lee said.
To take his psyche off the torment, Lee urged Oh to tune in to music - he enjoys K-Pop gathering Girls Generation - and sit in front of the TV. Lee says the main film he saw was "Transporter 3," an activity motion picture featuring Jason Statham.
Gracious revealed to Lee that American and South Korean TV shows are well known in North Korea, recommending that a few people approach outside media.
"I was very astonished," Lee said.
The ICU bed where North Korean turncoat Oh Chong Song was taken for recuperation subsequent to experiencing five hours of surgery.
The ICU bed where North Korean deserter Oh Chong Song was taken for recuperation in the wake of experiencing five hours of surgery.
Recently discovered big name
All through Oh's marvelous survival and recuperation, Lee, a prestigious specialist who prepared in San Diego, says it's been difficult to not give the anxiety a chance to get to him.
There's been serious enthusiasm for Oh's story crosswise over South Korea and by global media, and as one of only a handful couple of individuals who approaches him, the requests for data are constant.
The helipad at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital, where Dr Lee Cook-Jong initially met the fundamentally harmed turncoat.
The helipad at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital, where Dr Lee Cook-Jong initially met the fundamentally harmed turncoat.
He said that while Oh's survival is a wonder, it is a result his group takes a stab at consistently with each patient.
The tradeoff is much a disregard for one's own needs.
Lee says he goes home only one day seven days, spending the rest working and dozing in the injury focus he has supported for a considerable length of time.
What he's not used to is his freshly discovered VIP. As we stroll outside with him, he's approached to posture for a photo inside a matter of minutes.
South Korea has been bolted by how he spared Oh, and Lee says he knew his nation was depending on him.
"Individuals tend to state that I'm glad for my nation or something, with the goal that's the reason I was endeavoring to spare Mr. Goodness' life, however it's absolutely wrong, as should be obvious here. We are doing this activity each and every day."
"I was educated that he was seriously shot by North Koreans," Lee stated, remembering the mind boggling chain of occasions that brought North Korean deserter Oh Chong Song to his injury unit on November 13.
Lee says he went to meet his fundamentally harmed quiet on the helipad, only a couple of hundred feet from the cutting edge, US-demonstrated injury focus he keeps running at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital, Seoul.
The chopper was coming in quick, and for that, he says, he was grateful.
"His crucial signs were so flimsy, he was biting the dust of low circulatory strain, he was kicking the bucket of stun," Lee said.
"He resembled a broken container. We couldn't put enough blood into him."
Video gave by the Ajou University Trauma Center shows Oh being stacked off a helicopter.
The 24-year-old had been shot around five times by his kindred North Korean warriors as he made his challenging departure over the line that partitions North and South Korea.
Filled with slugs, he was dragged to security by South Korean troopers and floated near death amid the 25-minute carrier to doctor's facility.
What unfurled after the Black Hawk touched down was a nerve racking push to keep Oh alive that kept going over six hours - caught in video Lee imparted solely to CNN, with the authorization of the trooper.
Video gave by the Ajou University Trauma Center shows Oh being wheeled into an injury room.
Step by step battle
In the initial 30 minutes, after Oh was raced into Trauma Room One, Lee and his group attempted to keep Oh relaxing.
"He has one (projectile) through his correct knee joint; the other one is the tricep muscle territory on his arm, the third one was his back; chest and turning out from his shoulder," Lee said as he surveyed the video.
A x-beam indicates one of the slugs in Oh's body.
A x-beam indicates one of the slugs in Oh's body.
Be that as it may, the most exceedingly terrible was yet to come.
Amid a five-hour operation to expel a slug that had pierced Oh's digestion tracts, Lee experienced an inconvenience he's never found in his 20-year profession as a specialist: parasites.
Lee portrays attempting to repair no less than seven injuries in the deserter's punctured entrail while the white worms were squirming out of Oh's body.
"Everything was recolored with blood, yet the parasite was essentially an extremely white shading and this thick, enormous, long and, hard, this sort of thing was getting out from his entrail framework," Lee said.
The worms Lee expelled from Oh's body.
The worms Lee expelled from Oh's body.
Lee portrays Oh's key signs as so unsteady that a couple of times amid the difficult operation, he figured the turncoat would kick the bucket on the surgical table.
"It's a supernatural occurrence that he survived," Lee said.
All parasites were expelled from Oh's framework, some of them as long as 27 centimeters (more than 10 inches).
Intestinal worms are commonly transmitted through contact with dung or unwashed hands. The utilization of human manure on products and poor clean conditions can likewise help the transmission of parasitic pimples.
Lee seems to have become partial to Oh amid the weeks he's been treating him.
"I'm extremely glad for him. He fled from North Korea looking for freedom, substantially more opportunity. It's very simple to state, however it's extremely hard to get it going, so I respect him," Lee said.
Lee worked on Oh again two days after the fact for over three hours, and inside days of that, the deserter started a quick paced recuperation that has shocked even his specialists.
Lee Cook-Jong at the injury focus he keeps running at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital Seoul.
Lee Cook-Jong at the injury focus he keeps running at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital Seoul.
Strolling, talking
Gracious is strolling, talking and heading off to the lavatory autonomously. His condition, however steady, is as yet grave.
Entanglements from tuberculosis and hepatitis B keep on compromising his recuperation, particularly his liver capacity.
Gracious is likewise under mental care and prone to battle with post-horrible anxiety issue, Lee said.
He's been tormented by bad dreams, some of the time dreading he was still in North Korea, provoking Lee to hang the South Korean banner in his recuperation space to remind him he was sheltered.
North Korean abandonment got on camera 01:32
"He really asked me, 'is it extremely South Korea?' And I stated, 'observe that banner. Have you at any point seen that banner in North Korea?' "
It's hazy what's on the horizon. Gracious has told his specialist that he's occupied with contemplating law. Lee says he has no enthusiasm for going into the South Korean military, as different turncoats have done.
For the time being, however, his condition is still so sensitive that Lee says he revealed to South Korean authorities "solidly" that they needed to defer addressing Oh. As a fringe protect on dynamic obligation, he's probably going to have significant data on North Korea's military.
Dr. Lee Cook-Jong on the hospital's housetop helipad.
Dr. Lee Cook-Jong on the healing center's housetop helipad.
The South Korean government screens deserters for security dangers and runs resettlement projects to enable them to adjust and coordinate into South Korean culture - something that can be a difficult task.
Lee is defensive of his patient, and Oh stays under overwhelming security in the healing center so nothing can bargain his treatment.
"On the off chance that there's such a significant number of inquiries concerning his previous years in North Korea. It may influence his passionate status, so if he's in discouraged status, he will be unable to eat legitimately or recuperate appropriately," Lee said.
To take his psyche off the torment, Lee urged Oh to tune in to music - he enjoys K-Pop gathering Girls Generation - and sit in front of the TV. Lee says the main film he saw was "Transporter 3," an activity motion picture featuring Jason Statham.
Gracious revealed to Lee that American and South Korean TV shows are well known in North Korea, recommending that a few people approach outside media.
"I was very astonished," Lee said.
The ICU bed where North Korean turncoat Oh Chong Song was taken for recuperation subsequent to experiencing five hours of surgery.
The ICU bed where North Korean deserter Oh Chong Song was taken for recuperation in the wake of experiencing five hours of surgery.
Recently discovered big name
All through Oh's marvelous survival and recuperation, Lee, a prestigious specialist who prepared in San Diego, says it's been difficult to not give the anxiety a chance to get to him.
There's been serious enthusiasm for Oh's story crosswise over South Korea and by global media, and as one of only a handful couple of individuals who approaches him, the requests for data are constant.
The helipad at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital, where Dr Lee Cook-Jong initially met the fundamentally harmed turncoat.
The helipad at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital, where Dr Lee Cook-Jong initially met the fundamentally harmed turncoat.
He said that while Oh's survival is a wonder, it is a result his group takes a stab at consistently with each patient.
The tradeoff is much a disregard for one's own needs.
Lee says he goes home only one day seven days, spending the rest working and dozing in the injury focus he has supported for a considerable length of time.
What he's not used to is his freshly discovered VIP. As we stroll outside with him, he's approached to posture for a photo inside a matter of minutes.
South Korea has been bolted by how he spared Oh, and Lee says he knew his nation was depending on him.
"Individuals tend to state that I'm glad for my nation or something, with the goal that's the reason I was endeavoring to spare Mr. Goodness' life, however it's absolutely wrong, as should be obvious here. We are doing this activity each and every day."
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