Indian Army physicians have achieved a major success at an altitude of 16,000 feet. A team of army doctors removed appendix of a soldier at a dug-in at a forward surgical centre in Eastern Ladakh, ANI reported. The soldiers were deployed to counter China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) amid harsh winters in the region.

The soldier could not be evacuated due to the weather conditions, following which a team of three doctors, including a Lt Colonel, a Major and a Captain performed the surgery on October 28, according to the report by ANI.

“The surgical team from the field hospital performed an emergency surgery to remove the appendix at freezing temperatures at a height of 16,000 feet in a dug-in at a Forward Surgical Centre (FSC) in extreme conditions,” Army sources told ANI.

They added that the patient was now in a stable condition despite the difficulties faced by the physicians during the surgery.

The sources also said that since the Indian Army’s field hospitals are fully operational, the October 28 surgery was one of the very few of its kind, where doctors successfully performed a surgery in forward areas.