A factory worker has learned how to walk again after his FEET were chopped off in an accident - then sewn back on by a star surgeon.

The man's legs were trapped and his feet torn off after he fell into a ribbon blender at a textile factory during a night shift in Bangkok, Thailand.

Paramedics rushed the victim to hospital and scooped up his limbs - before calling one of the country's best reconstructive surgeons just after midnight.

Dr Wichit Siritattamrong woke up and rushed from his bed to the private Chulalat 3 hospital, calling the surgery team to tell them to prepare everything before he arrived at emergency ward.

The surgeon worked through the night, spending seven hours re-attaching the bones, ligaments, blood vessels, and the nerves - before inserting steel rods to hold the severed limbs in place.

Dr Siritattamrong yesterday (July 24) revealed details of the case which happened in December 2016 after the patient has only recently learned to walk again and returned to the same job where the accident happened.

He said: ''I don't want to be famous from these cases, but the reason behind all of this is I that I will be retired soon. I do not want these stories to retire with me.

"I want to use my work to inspire people, so patients can read about them with hope in their heart, while other doctors can read them and push them to keep improving and helping people.''

Dr Siritattamrong said the patient, who passed out after the horrific accident, woke up the next morning and was amazed that he was alive - and his feet were re-attached.

Due to the severe condition, the doctor kept the steel around his leg externally for three months then internally for another two years to retain the form until the bone had completely merged back. The man remained in a wheelchair before having physiotherapy.

Dr Siritattamrong added: "After two years without walking, the brain has forgotten how to walk. The man needed to learn the process all over again which took him almost a year until he would walk.

"It has taken three years of rehabilitation but not he is able to walk around almost like a normal person. .He is even working in the same factory doing the same job as before the accident.''

Dr Siritattamrong said that even though the surgery is high risk, he performed it anyway. But he cautioned other less experienced medics from trying the same operation.

He said: "When these kinds of accidents happen the important issues that should be considered are, firstly, if the patient can use that organ again? Another is about the beauty of the result, will it look normal? If one issue among the two is positive, then it is worth performing the surgery.''

The doctor said he doesn't feel any pressure during the operations but admits that it is hard ''dealing with the expectations of patients''.

He added: "I have been working as an orthopedic hand and reconstructive surgeon for over 31 years and now. Honestly, this situation is pretty normal for me.

"But the most hard part was dealing with the expectation of patients and their relatives. They always expect everything to be perfect, which is impossible."

Dr Siritattamrong graduated from Siriraj Medical School and learned to be an orthopedic hand and reconstructive surgeon at the Phramongkuklao College of Medicine.

He said he has no idea about the cost of the surgery. He said: ''The hospital has not informed me about that. My duty is to cure the injured patient and that is it.''

After being asked about his opinion among this situation compared to public health service hospitals in the UK, he said: "Law has nothing to do with this, but there are only a few specialists in Thailand and I believe that there are only a few in Europe, too.

''The strange thing is, that it can often depend on the luck of patients as well. If the patients happen to meet a specialist then he is fine, but if they see a non-specialist doctor, that doctor will surely avoid taking the risk."

A factory worker has learned how to walk again after his FEET were chopped off in an accident - then sewn back on by a star surgeon.

The man's legs were trapped and his feet torn off after he fell into a ribbon blender at a textile factory during a night shift in Bangkok, Thailand.

Paramedics rushed the victim to hospital and scooped up his limbs - before calling one of the country's best reconstructive surgeons just after midnight.

Dr Wichit Siritattamrong woke up and rushed from his bed to the private Chulalat 3 hospital, calling the surgery team to tell them to prepare everything before he arrived at emergency ward.

The surgeon worked through the night, spending seven hours re-attaching the bones, ligaments, blood vessels, and the nerves - before inserting steel rods to hold the severed limbs in place.

Dr Siritattamrong yesterday (24/07) revealed details of the case which happened in December 2016 after the patient has only recently learned to walk again and returned to the same job where the accident happened.

He said: ''I don't want to be famous from these cases, but the reason behind all of this is I that I will be retired soon. I do not want these stories to retire with me.

"I want to use my work to inspire people, so patients can read about them with hope in their heart, while other doctors can read them and push them to keep improving and helping people.''

Dr Siritattamrong said the patient, who passed out after the horrific accident, woke up the next morning and was amazed that he was alive - and his feet were re-attached.

Due to the severe condition, the doctor kept the steel around his leg externally for three months then internally for another two years to retain the form until the bone had completely merged back. The man remained in a wheelchair before having physiotherapy.

Dr Siritattamrong added: "After two years without walking, the brain has forgotten how to walk. The man needed to learn the process all over again which took him almost a year until he would walk.

"It has taken three years of rehabilitation but not he is able to walk around almost like a normal person. .He is even working in the same factory doing the same job as before the accident.''

Dr Siritattamrong said that even though the surgery is high risk, he performed it anyway. But he cautioned other less experienced medics from trying the same operation.

He said: "When these kinds of accidents happen the important issues that should be considered are, firstly, if the patient can use that organ again? Another is about the beauty of the result, will it look normal? If one issue among the two is positive, then it is worth performing the surgery.''

The doctor said he doesn't feel any pressure during the operations but admits that it is hard ''dealing with the expectations of patients''.

He added: "I have been working as an orthopedic hand and reconstructive surgeon for over 31 years and now. Honestly, this situation is pretty normal to me.

"But the most hard part was dealing with the expectation of patients and their relatives. They always expect everything to be perfect, which is impossible."

Dr Siritattamrong graduated from Siriraj Medical School and learned to be an orthopedic hand and reconstructive surgeon at the Phramongkuklao College of Medicine.

He said he has no idea about the cost of the surgery. He said: ''The hospital has not informed me about that. My duty is to cure the injured patient and that is it.''

After being asked about his opinion among this situation compared to public health service hospitals in the UK, he said: "Law has nothing to do with this, but there are only a few specialist in Thailand and I believe that there are only a few in Europe, too.

''The strange thing is, that it can often depend on the luck of patients as wel. If the patients happen to meet a specialist then he is fine, but if they see a non-specialist doctor, that doctoir will surel avoid taking the risk."