Watch: 9-year-old plays piano for 6 hours while brain surgery is performed on her
By Bhavya Singh| Published: 17th December 2020 3:18 pm IST
A 9-year-old displayed immense courage when she played the keyboard for 6 hours while she underwent brain surgery.
Soumya who hails from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, remained conscious and played the piano and mobile games while doctors performed brain surgery on her to remove a tumour. The surgery was performed at Gwalior’s Birla Institute of Medical Research Hospital (BIMR).
“We told the girl to play the piano during the surgery so that we could monitor her hand movements when we were removing the tumour. And if she couldn’t play the piano or missed some notes, we would have come to know that we were entering an important area of the brain,” said Dr Abhishek Chauhan, Consultant Neurosurgeon, BIMR Hospital while talking to the Quint.