A 19-year-old man has been receiving treatment for a spinal cord injury, paralysis and broken bones after being trapped by a falling tree during Tropical Cyclone Judy.
The Daily Post reports surgeon Richard Leona saying the boy was transferred from a hospital on Ambae and admitted to the surgical ward at Vila Centre Hospital.
Dr Leona explained the boy was found by relatives who went searching for him four days after the cyclone had passed.
He had been trapped under the fallen tree during the storm.
Source:
RNZ Pacific