A 30-year-old man kept chanting Hanuman Chalisa as he underwent brain surgery at a Jaipur hospital.

Hulasmal Jangir, who hails from Rajasthan's Bikaner, had been suffering from epilepsy seizures for the past several months. He was asked to undergo a biopsy test, which confirmed grade 2 brain tumour that required surgery. He was then informed by the doctors that to prevent loss of speech, he would need to undergo surgery, which required to be performed while he would be awake.

Though initially hesitant, Jangir finally agreed after he was told that it was the only way to ensure that his speech remained unaffected.

Given the huge possibility of loss of speech and paralysis upon surgery, several hospitals had refused surgery. Finally, he went to the Narayana Multispecialty Hospital in Jaipur, where the brain surgery was successfully performed on him by the neurosurgery team led by Dr KK Bansal.

Talking about the complications in such surgery, Dr KK Bansal, senior consultant neurosurgeon, said, "The left side of brain is the most important because we call that the dominant brain... and in this patient, on the left side from where speech is controlled, there was the tumour. So, if we performed surgery on him by keeping him awake, which is very rare."

The surgery, which took place on November 14, is amongst the first few reported cases in the desert state, where a patient underwent "awake craniotomy" or "awake brain surgery" successfully.



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