Life Saving Operation

 

Indian doctors prepare Roona Begum, a 15-month old girl for a surgery suffering from hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid inside the skull that leads to swelling, at a hospital in Gurgaon near New Delhi on May 15, 2013. Doctors have successfully carried out life-saving surgery on an Indian baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to swell to nearly double its size, a neurosurgeon told AFP. 'The surgery went perfectly, much better than expected,' Sandeep Vaishya said after the procedure on 15-month-old Roona Begum, speaking exclusively to an AFP reporter inside the operating theatre at a hospital in New Delhi