New Delhi, June 18:  In a miraculous turn of events, a Tanzanian man was relieved of a malignant 24-kg tumour after being operated at a Delhi hospital. Reports quoted doctors saying that two tumours were nearly the size of two footballs. During a press conference, Aloyce John Jawe, a resident of Dar es Salaam, shared his ordeal saying he had been suffering pain in his abdomen since December 2017. Jawe further revealed that after undergoing an ‘unsuccessful surgery' for removal of the tumour in his own country- Africa in 2018, he decided to visit India for the treatment as he had read on Internet that doctors in India have successfully tackled such rare cases. Indian Man With ‘World’s Largest Brain Tumour’ Let It Grow Because He Was Scared of Surgery: How to Check If Your Tumour Is Cancerous or Benign. 

The surgery took six hours during which the patient lost close to four litres of blood. Reports inform that to overcome the heavy blood loss the team was prepared with blood, plasma and platelets, the doctor said. The tumour was extracted along with a segment of the small intestine and part of the urinary bladder. Hospital authorities added that the abdominal packs were removed 60 hours after the procedure and Jawe came off the ventilator support on the fourth day post-surgery. Football-Sized Tumour Removed from Oman Woman’s Leg at Apollo Cancer Institute in Chennai. 

Pradeep Jain, Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology, Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh was quoted by PTI saying that the Jawe came to the Delhi hospital in a very weak condition with a life-threatening tumour which was huge and malignant and weighed 24 kg. “It was a vascular tumour which means it was getting blood supplies and therefore quite dense. We operated on him on May 31 this year and he had to be put on a ventilator for four days post-surgery,” Jain said.

Doctors inform that within two weeks of the surgery, Jawe has recovering well and will be given targeted oral chemotherapy now to ensure full recovery and avoid any re-occurrence. Jawe works in the ICT sector in Tanzania, and is now all set to go back to his country in Africa. “I underwent a surgery in Tanzania, but despite the long incision made in my body the doctor there could not remove the tumour. Then I read on the internet about many Africans going to India seeking treatment and coming back satisfied. So I decided to visit India,” he told reporters.

Mahipal Singh Bhanot, Facility Director, Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh said several complex surgeries in the past, but this case was a rare one. Bhanot added saying that patients visit India as part of medical tourism are mostly from Africa or the Middle East such as Kenya, Nigeria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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