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SURGERY is also called an operation, and the place where it is performed is called an operating theatre. All types of surgery must be considered serious.
A common measure of how serious it could be is whether it will be performed under local or general anaesthesia. The former entails a procedure that does not require long-term hospital recovery, whereas the latter necessitates it because of the more invasive nature of the surgery and the recovery from general anaesthesia.
These terms seep into political and administrative systems, depending on the health of the polity. The more its health deteriorates, the more you hear of operations like Clean-up. Surgical strikes are usually preceded by strafing to soften the target, for an anaesthetic effect, if you like. The surgery being referred to is the proposed 28th constitutional amendment, which has been in the making for a long time.
Its extremely invasive nature required that the patient not only be numbed into a comatose state but also be made to suffer so much before the surgery that they would be thankful just to be alive, even if a wrong organ is amputated during the operation.
