Surgeons Save 6-year-old Accident Victim

A team of neurosurgeons, eye specialists, and plastic and reconstructive surgeons at Long Island Jewish Medical Center performed six-hour long life-saving surgery on a Bellerose kindergartner after his head was split in a freak accident while walking to school.
Rahoul Gupta was walking with his mother and little sister on May 23 when two cars collided, forcing one car to careen onto the sidewalk where it hit a parking sign. Eyewitnesses said the sign became a flying projectile which came down like a cleaver, cutting his skull in two.
At a news conference on June 28, the child expressed his thanks to the surgical team that operated on him at LIJMCs Schneider Childrens Hospital. The team was headed by Dr. Steven Schneider, a pediatric neurosurgeon.
Doctors called the childs survival "a miracle" and expect he will experience complete recovery after a period of rehabilitation. A Hospital spokesperson said the condition of one eye is a "question mark."
Eyewitnesses said that after the crash, two neighbors ran down the street to aid Rahoul, who was being rocked in his mothers blood-soaked arms. Police quickly appeared on the scene along with paramedics who delicately cradled Rahoul, scooping up his tiny split-open head together in their hands, so that he could be put into the ambulance.
Doctors said that they saved his life, sight and other senses.
Rahoul, his parents, physicians and nurses involved in his care, helpful neighbors, police officers and paramedics were on hand at the news conference.