New Delhi, April 10: A 107-year-old Delhi woman may have become the world’s oldest patient to have a partial hip replacement, and hopes to be walking again within a fortnight.
Lily Wauters, a 101-year-old British woman is recorded by the Guinness World Records as the oldest person to have a total hip replacement in 2007 when she was 101 years and 196 days old.
Vidyavati Chopra, of Delhi’s Bengali Market, underwent a partial hip replacement surgery three days ago and is possibly the oldest person to have such a procedure.
Vidyavati, who may be among the few lucky ones still alive to have seen the trio of Bhagat Singh, Sukhbir and Rajguru in prison, had met with a freakish accident and had fractured her hip this week leaving her family worried about the option of surgery because of her age.
-Agencies