An Egyptian patient was scared before her surgery so the doctors sang a song for her to divert her mind, Gulf News reported.
They sang a popular song by Egypt’s Mohamed Hamaki called ‘Don’t leave again’ to take her mind off the procedure.
The video shows the patient expressing discomfort and pain and then she starts enjoying the song along with the doctors.
A woman hailing from the Swabi district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa became a man after successful surgery on Friday.
Talking to The Express Tribune, the woman’s brother Inamul Hassan said that his sister is an EDO education at Razzar Tehsil in Swabi. She earlier had two surgeries in Haripur district as well.
The unmarried woman is in her 40s and lives with her parents in a village, Yar-e-Hussain.
“A final decision about her sex would be announced after full recovery from procedures,” stated Inam.
Expressing his joy for having another brother in the family, Inam said he has six sisters and two brothers but now would have an elder brother as Umer Qureshi, referring to his sister with her new name.
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A senior official in the district education office said that it will be the decision of the provincial education ministry to let her continue on the position of EDO or change it as she is not a “woman” anymore.
She needs a medical certificate from relevant doctors after going through such procedure as it is a legal requirement in such cases, the official explained.
“I cannot comment on her future assignments as it’s purely provincial ministry’s domain and what rights would she enjoy at her office… all I can say is that she would need to produce medical certificates,” he added.
“The gender changing procedures conducted abroad are considered legal, but here due to legal restrictions and religious reason, we hide our patients from the public while the family also keeps quiet,” a doctor, who wished not to be named, told The Express Tribune.
He explained that the process required two surgeries, one for changing the gender and the other for dominating the sex they were given by the nature, adding such patients have symptoms of both genders but procedures can be different from being simple to complex depending on the body structure of the patient.
“After the procedures, we always issue the patients certificate for changing their names and genders in legal documents. If they are serving in public offices then they need to make changes in the respected department as well,” he added.
He further said that the people should not hesitate for such procedures if they have such symptoms.
“Don’t be shy about what you really are. Such procedures are mostly conducted in Thailand or other countries, but it needs legal coverage in Pakistan to avoid legal restrictions.”
He revealed that he usually performs 20 to 30 such procedures a year but people refuse to receive their certificates and try to hide the changes.
An Indian surgeon removed a nine-inch long toothbrush from a patient’s stomach after a surgery.
According to reports, doctors at the Medical College and Hospital (Ghati Hospital) in Aurangabad removed the toothbrush under the supervision of Muslim surgeon Junaid M. Sheikh.
Rajesh Jadho, 33, had swallowed a toothbrush by mistake. After his ultrasound and MRI were conducted, Dr Junaid, after consulting with other doctors, recommended him to get an operation done immediately.
Sheikh told Indian media that Rajesh was brought to Ghati Hospital on December 26 at 11 am. The surgeon said that if the brush had not been removed from the abdomen on time, it could have resulted in an internal rapture.
The rupture could have been life threatening, he said.
A Russian man had mistakenly put a coin in his nose when he was only six years old. It was surgically removed from his nose when he complained of a breathing problem at the age of 59.
Doctors in Russia said they recently faced a unique case when the patient told them he was unable to breathe through his right nostril for the past several months.
CT scan of the patient showed his nose was blocked by some object. Following an endoscopy, doctors were surprised to discover that a coin was stuck in the man’s nose.
When they discussed it with the patient, he remembered how he had mistakenly put the coin in his nose when he was six and did not tell anyone about it because he was afraid of his strict mother.
A medical team at Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) removed 51 magnets from a three-year-old girl’s stomach.
As per reports, the child is said to have swallowed the magnets while playing. Doctors extracted the magnets in a three-and-half hour-long surgery, repairing multiple tears in her stomach and intestines.
The child was sent home after seven days of recovery in hospital.
A patient at King’s College Hospital in London has played the violin while having brain surgery.
The medical team asked Dagmar Turner, 53, to play the violin to ensure parts of the brain that control hand movements and coordination were not damaged during the surgery.
Ms. Turner was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2013.
The committed violinist, who plays in Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra, was worried the surgery would result in the loss of her ability to play. Her tumour was located in the right frontal lobe of her brain, close to an area that controls the fine movement of her left hand.
Professor Keyoumars Ashkan, the consultant neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital, came up with an idea to operate and reduce the risk.
The brain tumour specialist holds a degree in music and is an accomplished pianist and shared Ms. Turner’s desire to save her musical skills.
Before the surgery, doctors spent two hours carefully plotting her brain to identify areas that were active when she played the violin and those responsible for controlling language and movement.
Ms. Turner played the violin while her tumour was removed, while closely monitored by the anesthetists and a therapist.
Doctors at Civil Hospital Quetta were forced to perform surgery under cell phone light because of the constant power outage due to heavy rain and snowfall in the provincial capital. The hospital had no backup power as there was no generator in place either.
According to a statement issued by Balochistan Young Doctors’ Association (YDA), the trauma and emergency centre in the hospital was in terrible condition due to the incompetence of its managing director.
YDA spokesperson Rahim Khan Babar revealed that there was a lack of equipment and medicines. The operation theatre did not have slippers for the patients and the x-ray machines and other apparatus automatically shut down due to power breakdown.
He added that Balochistan CM Jam Kamal, Balochistan Assembly Speaker Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Jamal Mandokhail and provincial Health Secretary Muddasir Waheed have visited the hospital but no development and improvement was witnessed.
Earlier, the CM promised to ensure facilities for poor citizens in the hospital during his visit.
Babar urged the CM to take notice of the situation and resolve it as soon as possible because precious lives were put at risk. He also stressed the management to make contractual staff permanent employees to improve the situation of the hospital.