QUETTA: Doctors at the Children’s Hospital Quetta have removed a rare tumour, acrococcygeal teratoma (SCT), in a surgical procedure conducted on a young girl from Musakhail.
The surgery was led by Prof Ghulam Nabi Nasir, Head of Paediatric Surgery at the hospital.
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti and Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar had taken notice of the girl's critical condition after a video of her went viral on social media.
Their intervention led to her admission to the Children’s Hospital Quetta, where she was given urgent medical attention.
Prof Nasir performed the two-and-a-half-hour surgery to remove the 5kg tumour, which had developed near the girl's spine. SCTs are congenital, mostly benign tumours, occurring in approximately one in every 35,000 newborns, making them the most common tumour in that age group.
The family had previously sought treatment in Punjab but could not afford the surgery there.