CHENNAI, INDIA -- A 25 year old Akbar ali, who sustained an injury to his spinal cord on the 12th of October 2006 at a construction site in Abhudabi following a fall from 12 mts, lost sensation and activity of the lower half of his body. He was treated surgically in which the bones of the vertebral column within which the spinal cord is situated were fixed using metal plates and screws after which he was on a wheel chair without any control over his bladder and bowel. The sensation and activity also didn't improve much. He arrived back in India on a wheel chair in the first week of December 2006.
