A seven-year-old child’s life has been saved after a 2.5-kilogramme tumour was removed from his brain in a risky surgery at a private hospital in Abbottabad.
The child who belongs to Afghanistan’s Helmand province was operated on by renowned Pakistani neurosurgeon Dr Abdul Aziz, after Indian and Turkish experts termed the surgery termed as ‘extremely complicated’.
Speaking to a local news outlet, Dr Aziz said that the brain tumour weighed two and a half kilos and had already damaged an eye and an ear of the patient, adding that the child was given further medical aid following the surgery and his condition was improving gradually. “Experts [from India and Turkey] had declared this surgery extremely difficult and complicated, but we proved that it was possible,” said Dr Aziz.