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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — During an ablative brain surgery Feb. 18 at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, neurosurgeon Mahmoud Abu Khater succeeded in removing an extra brain growth outside the head of 4-month-old Mayce Eid. He reconstructed her brain in a unique surgery.
The Ministry of Health covered the cost of the surgery. Mayce’s father, Shaker Sheikh Eid, had urged government authorities to step in to save his daughter’s life. Several hospitals in the Gaza Strip, such as the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis, and Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem had refused to perform the risky operation and transferred the case to other hospitals in Gaza and the West Bank.
