It was conducted by 2 citizen doctors and it took 6 hours

UAE records a medical achievement with a delicate procedure in the spine of a fetus

Al-Qatami during the press conference.

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The United Arab Emirates recorded a medical precedent in the Arab region, after a specialized medical team succeeded in conducting the first-of-its-kind microsurgery to treat a deformity in the spine of a fetus under the age of six months and weighing less than 700 grams.

The Dubai Health Authority confirmed, in a press conference held at its headquarters yesterday, that Latifa Women and Children Hospital was able to perform the surgery for a deformity in the spine of a fetus, which is considered one of the rare cases in the world.

The Director General of the Dubai Health Authority, Hamid Muhammad Al Qatami, said, “The delicate operation took nearly six continuous hours, which were performed by two Emirati doctors, the consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, the Executive Director of Latifa Hospital, Dr. Mona Tahlak, and the consultant neurosurgery at Rashid Hospital of the authority, Dr. Mohammed Scientists, noting that they led a team of 20 doctors, along with the nursing staff, while two American doctors were present at the hospital following the operation.

Al-Qutami stressed that the success of Latifa Hospital for Women and Children in conducting such an operation is a global achievement that adds to the balance of the UAE's achievements, and represents a historical precedent at the Arab level.

Mona Tahlak, Executive Director of Latifa Women and Children Hospital, explained that the operation was performed for a 24-year-old citizen of the Emirate of Fujairah, where she attended Latifa Hospital for Women and Children in Dubai, with a medical report stating that her fetus had a congenital deformity in the spine.

She pointed out that, before this operation, the hospital used to witness five to seven births annually with a deformity of the spine.

Dr. Tahlak stated that among the risks surrounding the mother and the fetus was the process of opening the uterus at this time of pregnancy (six months) without threatening the life of the fetus, which has not yet fully developed, and without bleeding to the mother or separation of the placenta, and it is also dangerous to return the water that surrounds it. The fetus is in the womb after the operation.

The consultant neurosurgeon at Rashid Hospital in Dubai, Dr. Muhammad Abdulaziz Al-Olama, explained that the most prominent challenges were to conduct such a delicate operation in the spine of a small fetus whose weight did not exceed 700 grams, and in addition to this another greater risk, which is dealing with delicate nerves in The fetus is not seen with the naked eye.

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