Jaipur patient recites Hanuman Chalisa for 3 hours as doctors perform successful brain surgery

A patient kept on reciting Hanuman Chalisa for three hours while doctors performed a surgery to remove tumour from his brain. The incident is reported from Jaipur.

The 30-year-old patient was a little hesitant when doctors informed him that he will be awake when the brain surgery will be conducted. However, doctors during the counseling session told him that this is the only way his speech loss could be averted, he agreed.

The surgery which was conducted on November 14 lasted for three-and-a-hour surgery. The doctors in Jaipur who conducted the surgery said that the technique is known as 'Awake Craniotomy'. In many brain surgeries, patients are encouraged to remain awake as the doctors can understand the exact spot without causing damage to other parts of the brain. This is not possible if the person is sedated, hence 'Awake Craniotomy' is encouraged.

He was awake throughout the surgery and also responded to questions that doctors asked him about the operation. 

According to a report in The Times of India, the hospital said that the resident of Dungargarh of Bikaner district said that he had earlier gone to a private hospital in Ahmedabad where he was refused over the risk of speech loss. The man was suffering from a Grade 2 Brain Tumor and had been also got bouts of Epilepsy seizure in the past three months.

An MRI conducted one and a half month after the surgery ascertained that the tumour was completely removed. Doctors also disclosed details of the unique surgery they had conducted.

As the man was completely awake during the surgery and repeating Hanuman Chalisa, doctors could rightly understand the point of damage in his brain. If they touched a wrong spot, his speech would get illegible. Such awake brain surgeries are performed by neuro-surgeons across the world.