Home-based Nigerian doctors have not only done the country proud but have also proved to the world that they are worth every letter of their prestigious title by the prompt, gallant and miraculous saving of a young bricklayer who, at work, had fallen off a storey building, landing on an upright-standing hammer which pierced through the victim’s neck.

Please, read below the unedited, though not journalistically written, first-hand report of one of the egghead surgeons who performed the miraculous exiting of the giant foreign object off the bricklayer’s neck:

“Good Morning All,

“FMC Owerri emergency response of Surgeons on call saved a Life at around 10:30 pm yesterday.

“This is a 35 yrs old Bricklayer who accidentally fell off from a Storey building while at work and landed with the left lateral anterior Neck, on a hammerstanding on the ground with the handle facing upwards. This pierced via the anterior and exited on the posterior. However, as God may have it, he was not in any respiratory distress and vitals are relatively stable on presentation

(Daily Independent)