Doctors of Al-Kafeel hospital restore limb movement to a man after breaking a number of his vertebrae

A medical team at Al-Kafeel Super Speciality Hospital managed to end the quadriplegia of a man whose vertebrae were fractured as a result of a road accident.

The head of the team, a specialist in spinal surgery, Dr. Khalid al-Sarraj, "the presence of human and technical means at Al-Kafeel Super Speciality Hospital, usually helps us to make a decision on complex operations, succeed in them and end the suffering of patients, "noting that" many of the distinguished surgical operations have become our success naturally and do not face difficulties."

He added that "one of the complex operations that we succeeded in recently was for a 53-year-old man from Najaf province weighing about 130 kg, and he was quadriplegic as a result of the fracture of a number of cervical vertebrae and compression of his spinal cord, as a result of a road accident," noting that "the case called us to conduct thorough and accurate examinations of the patient and study them thoroughly, and then we made the decision to perform surgery on him."

Al-Sarraj explained," We were able to install six cervical vertebrae and lift the compression of the spinal cord, and there were no obstacles in the operation, "stressing" the patient regained the movement of the four limbs after two days, after which he was discharged from intensive care to the hallway, "adding,"We instructed him to leave the hospital days later and he is in good health."