Nandurbar-Based Farmer’s 4-Month-Old Baby Boy With Rare Congenital Encephalocele Disorder Gets A New Life At Wadia Hospital

A team of doctors at Wadia Hospital performed a successful complex 8-hour brain surgery on a 4-month old boy with rare congenital encephalocele disorder wherein the bones of a baby’s skull fail to close completely in the mother’s uterus, and gave him a new face and life.

The couple Mr. Suresh Kuta Pavra and Bhartibai Suresh Pavra, the residents of Dhanaji Putro village, Nandurbar, Maharashtra became proud parents of a third baby boy Kartik on 05 April 2021 after Ayush and Hardik. But, their happiness was short-lived when they saw a huge swelling on the face of the little baby, a swelling which hung over his eyes and almost blocked his nose when they saw the baby for the first time.
This made it difficult for the baby to eat, breathe and his vision was distorted. Back there in the village, the doctors and nurses referred the family to a local hospital in Taloda, Nandurbar. Then, their trips to the hospital continued for a month. Even after performing CT scans, no one had any clue regarding the condition he suffered from, and the family was told that the patient can get operated on in the near future. Finally, the village primary health care provider sent the pictures to the paediatric neurosurgeon at Wadia Hospital and after six days, the family took the bold step to move the child to Mumbai: in midst of Corona, with fear in the heart and little Karthik in hands. Little did they know about the war-like readiness done by the team at Wadia Children’s Hospital to receive this baby of courage. The neurosurgery teamed up with the craniofacial plastic surgery team to save the baby’s life.