A medical team at Al-Kafeel Super Speciality Hospital has successfully operated on a hip replacement for a child.
A specialist in fractures and Joint Surgery at the hospital, Dr. Ahmed Ni'mah al-Ta'ei, said that" a child from Karbala province came back to us suffering from a congenital hip dislocation, with a short in the lower limb, "explaining,"We performed a special operation for the child to replace the full hip joint, and thus the short limb was treated as well as the mechanical condition of the joint improved."
Al-Ta'ei explained that" the operation was performed under semi-anesthesia and lasted two hours, and the patient underwent physiotherapy after it, "stressing"the success of the operation with the help of hospital techniques and the support team was able to".