UQU faculty member succeeds in removing a girl's brain tumor in a French hospital

Unexpectedly, and after the apology of the senior French surgeon assigned to perform the operation to remove a brain tumor for a Kuwaiti girl, the Saudi surgeon and faculty member at Al-Qassim University, Dr. Hani bin Talal Al-Juhani, who works as a surgeon in the hospital in the French city of Colmar, intervened to perform the operation for the girl after he received a call from her brother and the Kuwaiti embassy in France to perform it after they had contacted many hospitals and doctors to perform this operation, but all their attempts were rejected due to the conditions that hospitals around the world are experiencing in light of the outbreak of the Corona pandemic pandemic.

The Kuwaiti girl had come to the French capital, Paris, to perform the operation with one of the most famous surgeons in skull base tumors, in the largest brain surgery center, but he apologized at the last moments from performing the operation in this period due to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic and the crowding of intensive care units with infected patients, although the girl's condition is urgent due to her exposure to epilepsy, but the will of God Almighty facilitated her brother to communicate with Dr. "Al-Juhani" through a social networking site.

The administration of the hospital in the French city of Colmar, where Dr. "Al-Juhani" works, initially refused his request to perform the surgery on the girl, because the hospital is located in the most affected areas in France by the Coronavirus, but "Al-Juhani" repeated the request and hesitated for two weeks until the hospital administration was approved to perform the operation, which lasted 7 hours continuously on the microscope machine, and succeeded, thanks to God Almighty, and the patient began immediately after the operation to move all her limbs and left the hospital after only 4 days.

In describing the accuracy and danger of the surgery, the university faculty member emphasized that the girl had a tumor in the base of the skull close to the blood vessels that feed the brain, and its danger lies in the fact that it overlaps with the carotid artery that feeds the brain, and overlaps with the middle cerebral artery on the right side of the patient, which increased her difficulty in how to separate this tumor without affecting the rest of the arteries, and this happened thanks to Allah Almighty and the patient began to move all her limbs immediately after the operation.

Dr. Al-Juhani, who is on scholarship from the university to complete a medical fellowship in neurosurgery in France, is one of the Saudi doctors who documented the Kingdom's role and leadership in humanitarian work abroad through the work of its competent sons working side by side with their French colleagues to combat the spread of the Coronavirus. He started his work in France at Strasbourg University Hospital, and after three years of his fellowship period he moved to Colmar Hospital after he was allowed to perform the precise specialization as the first Saudi neurosurgeon after the agreement signed by the Cultural Attaché at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in France with the French Ministry of Health and allowed to