A multidisciplinary team of medics at the Moi and Teaching Hospital (MTRH), during the operation on Tuesday. [Mercy Kahenda, Standard]
As they scrubbed up their hands and donned surgical gowns ready for complex surgery, all that they wanted was to put a smile on the face of a 68-year-old patient.
The growth on Beatrice Nanjala’s face had deprived her of self-esteem for 24 years and the multidisciplinary team of medics at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) wanted to change all that.
Dr Francis Thuku, a maxillofacial surgeon, said the operation was unique due to the size of the growth, and complexity as it had covered her right eye, frontal bone, ethmoid and frontal sinus.