mumbai doctors at jj hospital in byculla performed a complex fivehourlong surgery to save the life of a 33yearold labourer from nashik who was impaled by a 4ft long iron rod that pierced his torso while working at a construction site with the rodthat entered his body through the groin perforating his intestines liver abdomen and chest before coming out of the back the man journeyed a 200km bumpy ride from nashik to mumbai in search of a hospital to remove it sheikhs family could not make use of the states decorated free ambulance scheme as they were not informed about it his mother naseem said they paid rs 5500 to hire a private ambulance to get him to mumbai with great difficulty we raised the money from his friends and coworkers all daily wage labourers she said on march 8 while working at a construction site in lasalgaon sheikh slipped and fell from a height of 7ft on an iron rod that was jutting out of concrete pillars he traversed 200km in over six hours in the ambulance seething in pain the rod that was protruding at the back of his collar bone didnt allow him to lie evenly inside the ambulance we bought an inflatable pillow and placed it between the rod and his head but everytime we would hit a pothole or a speedbreaker he would scream in pain he was in and out of consciousness and pleading us to save him naseem recollected with tears in her eyes