Kochi: Doctors at a city hospital have performed a rare surgery on an Arab woman to save her unborn baby.
A team of surgeons headed by Dr. Hafeez Rahman at Sunrise Hospital successfully done a rare procedure called laparoscopic encirclage to save the baby in womb.
Doctors had earlier removed almost half of the uterus of the 32-year-old UAE native suffering from cancer of the organ.
After the disease got cured, the woman wanted to conceive.
However, she had to abort her first pregnancy due to the very small size of the womb.
When she conceived a second time, the woman came to the hospital here with a 14-week-old foetus which was half outside the uterus.
Through the laparoscopic encirclage procedure, the doctors put the baby back into the uterus and the womb was repaired.
