Melbourne: The Indian student working as a taxi driver, who was brutally stabbed and left bleeding on the roadside here, has made a "miraculous" recovery and released from the hospital after being kept in induced comma for nearly a week.

The 23-year-old Jalvinder Singh was released yesterday from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was being treated after being brutally stabbed and left to bleed on April 29.

He was kept in an induced coma for nearly a week by the medical team which feared if left unconscious for several hours his brain injuries would be too severe.

"On paper he had no prospects of survival but not only has he survived, I believe he will make a full and complete recovery. On Sunday, we reversed the sedation and he woke up normal. It's remarkable, so therein, I think, lies the miracle of what's happened," Cardiothoracic Surgeon Hospital Alistair Royse was quoted as saying in The Age today.

Royse said he was amazed Singh survived the attack, in which a knife wound on his chest went through his breast bone but luckily missed his heart by a centimetre. "Another went through his rib, penetrating his lung and causing five litres of blood to bleed into his chest inabling him to breathe causing a loss of consciousness", he said.

When doctors opened up Singh's chest to assess his injuries, his heart stopped, forcing them to perform open heart massage for about 15 minutes and putting him in coma.

"I am very glad I was treated here by the doctors and staff who have given me a new life," Singh said, adding he was looking forward to resuming his studies and had not ruled out driving taxis again.

Singh said he had spoken to his mother in India only once since the attack but told her he was fine.

Source : PTI