Moroccan Doctors Perform Groundbreaking Brain Surgery on Infant in Ouarzazate

A ventriculo-peritoneal shunt surgical operation. The very name evokes the delicacy of this intervention that lasted three hours. A real relief for the parents of the infant who have seen the health of this child deteriorate quite rapidly.

Zahra, the baby’s mother, recounts, on the microphone of 2M, how she witnessed, helplessly, "the increase in the head circumference of her child, four days after his birth". She says she went around the hospitals before being sent to Ouarzazate.

The operation consists of placing a flexible tube in the cerebral ventricle, allowing the excess fluid to be diverted to the abdominal cavity, where it can be safely removed. Jamal Oumelal, a neurosurgeon at the Sidi Hsaine Ben Nacer hospital in Ouarzazate, is delighted with the success of the intervention and congratulates the staff who spared no effort to support the surgical team.

The next step will be the removal of the sutures, which will be done in a few days. The parents are eagerly awaiting this operation, which aims to give their child a normal existence.