Doctor saves boy with 1-in-5,000 birth defect

Hungarian boy was born with abdominal organs outside body

- BY ASHWANI KUMAR

In a case of cross-border medical collaboration, an Abu Dhabi-based doctor led a series of complex surgeries to save the life of a Hungarian boy born with his abdominal organs outside his body.

Prof Dr Amulya Saxena, consultant paediatric surgeon at Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi, was invited by the University of Szeged in Hungary to treat Benett, who was born in August 2020 with a severe congenital condition known as a giant omphalocele.