Following the shooting, Sharma underwent an operation to remove the bullet in his waist, but doctors declined removing the one in his heart as they had they entertained fears the operation might cost him his life.
Bharat Sharma, from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, survived for two months with a bullet lodged in his heart after walking in on a bank robbery.
All that changed on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 when Sharma was taken to a hospital in Ahmedabad in Western India where the .20 calibre bullet which was in his left ventricle was removed.
An X-ray shows the 20-caliber bullet lodged in the 32-year-old's chest. Another bullet, which hit his waist, was removed within days of the ambush in July but two sets of doctors refused to operate on the bullet lodged in Mr Sharma's heart, for fear surgery would kill the newly married man.
Anil Jain, the cardiac surgeon and his team carried out the successful surgery in three hours, removing the bullet and stitching Sharma’s heart
Jain said: “The bullet was stuck horizontally between the valves. Also, since the patient had lost lots of blood after the incident, we had to be very careful. How the patient survived and reached us is pure destiny.”
Sharma will fully recover in about a month.
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