A Saudi doctor performs surgery using a clothes hanger.. Photos

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In a hospital in remote locations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and due to the lack of a tool to be used in laparoscopic surgery, a Saudi doctor used a metal clothes hanger after removing its plastic cover and sterilizing it, and turning it into a surgical tool to complete the operation successfully.

According to the story, the details of which were published on the website of the “Al Arabiya” channel, the Saudi doctor Khaled Al-Otaibi toured the world to save many lives, and he did not wait for them to come to him, so he used his annual vacations to travel to remote countries to perform surgeries with a group of doctors of different specialties, to spend 12 continuous hours. From his day in order to deliver his humanitarian message that depends on extending a helping hand to every patient.

Dr. Al-Otaibi, who has been helping many patients in the world for two decades, obtained his fellowship in urology in 1996 AD, and registered his name as the first surgeon to perform laparoscopic kidney tumor surgery in the Middle East, and to establish a link between the needy and provide assistance to them on social networking sites By providing medical and social advice,

And Dr. Al-Otaibi published on his account on the social networking site “Twitter” the story when he used a metal clothes hanger, after removing its plastic cover and sterilizing it, and turning it into a surgical tool in a hospital in remote locations in Saudi Arabia, to perform voluntary surgery because there was no tool to be used in endoscopic surgery, which necessitated Use this tool to complete the process successfully.

The doctor said: "I was working a dialysis catheter in one of the remote sites in Saudi Arabia, and I had to sterilize and extend a clothes hanger, to be similar to the device due to a malfunction in the endoscope device during the operation, and it was used successfully, and the patient was saved instead of canceling the operation. Need is the mother of invention."

“One of my voluntary surgical trips.”


The hospital did not have a surgical tool necessary to complete the laparoscopic operation, so I had to use a metal clothes hanger after removing its plastic cover and sterilizing it.


The saying goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” pic.twitter.com/cQJEKnkXvM

— Professor Khalid Alotaibi Doctor Who Has No Doctor (@otaibikm) July 22, 2021

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