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The Economic Times
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In Australia, worker loses thumb in factory accident; Plastic surgeon rebuilds it using her second toe after 12-hour operation

Eight months after losing her left thumb in a workplace accident, a 40-year-old East Timorese woman in Australia has regained hope of using her hand again after surgeons reconstructed the missing thumb using one of her toes. As per ABC news, Francisca Amaral, who has lived on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast for more than a decade, suffered the devastating injury in January when her hand became caught in a conveyor belt at the produce factory where she worked.

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