Doctors perform first brain surgery

ABBOTTABAD: The Neurosurgery Department of Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) Abbottabad on Tuesday performed its first ever brain surgery on a four year old boy Asim from Manshera in Hazara Division. The child was suffering from Encephalocele, a neural tube defect characterised by sac-like protrusions of the brain and the membranes that cover it through openings in the skull. The Neurosurgery Department Associate Professor Dr Abdul Aziz conducted the surgery and removed a five kilogramme herniated sac and repaired the opening in the skull of Asim. Doctors said Asim’s condition was stable and normal and may leave hospital after two days of treatment.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 19^th, 2017.