Successful surgery on Indian baby with rare disorder

Doctors have successfully carried out life-saving surgery on an Indian baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to swell to nearly double its size, her neurosurgeon said.

“The surgery went perfectly, much better than expected,” Sandeep Vaishya said after the procedure on 15-month-old Roona Begum inside the operating theatre at a hospital in New Delhi.

“It’s definitely a success but it’s too early to say what the quality of her future life will be like,” Vaishya added.