The Mandeville Regional Hospital (MRH) has successfully performed a complex bypass procedure, saving a patient’s only remaining lower limb from amputation.

Dr Varunesh Chand, consultant general surgeon at MRH, said 72-year-old Edwin Rowe was admitted in April 2026 with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia, presenting as gangrene in his fourth toe — a condition caused by inadequate blood supply leading to tissue death.

Rowe’s right leg faced a high risk of amputation due to peripheral arterial disease and severely reduced blood flow, linked to long-term diabetes, hypertension and a history of smoking.