In a testament of the power of religion and belief, a woman has gone viral after reciting Hanuman Chalisa while she was getting operated for brain surgery at AIIMS, Delhi. While the team of doctors continued on operating a complex brain surgery to remove a tumor for brain, the woman – who had to be kept awake during the process – took the refuge of religion.

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1. Details
2. The Strange and Heartwarming Incident
3. What was the Woman Being Operated for?
4. Watch Video Here
5. What the Doctor Had to Say
6. Recitation helped with patient-surgeon interaction, monitoring of speech
7. What are Awake Surgeries?

Details

While religion is the cause of certain mayhems and fervor in the world, it is often the bridge that restores the gap between mystical beliefs – and logical procedures. At times when all the failsafe in the human endeavor fail to work, people surrender themselves into the refuge of religion. This leads to them continuing with their work with their head down, and accepting their situation calmly by trusting a higher-power that may be looking out for them.

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The Strange and Heartwarming Incident

In one such incident, a 24-year-old woman’s video footage of narrating the 40 verses of Hanuman Chalisa is making the rounds on the internet. While millions of Indians across the world recite the verses, what was special about the 24-year-old girl was the fact that she did so while she was being operated on for a brain tumor surgery.

What was the Woman Being Operated for?

The 24-year-old was being operated by a team of doctors for a brain tumor complication at the AIIMS Hospital, New Delhi. The nature of the surgery was such that the doctors had to keep the woman awake to monitor speech activities. Awake and sedated, the woman started reciting all the fourty Hanuman Chalisa verses and the team of doctors continued with their complex surgery.

The incident happened at India’s premier hospital’s neurosurgery department. Dr. Deepak Gupta spoke to news agency ANI where he said that the patient was given LA (local anesthesia) and other painkiller medications.

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Watch Video Here

What the Doctor Had to Say

After the surgery was successful, Dr. Gupta himself took to Twitter and explained the procedure briefly and how the patient came about reciting Hanuman Chalisa while she was being operated.

“There was a surgery conducted on a 24-year-old girl in awake conditions. In the surgery, the surgical team was constantly communicating with the girl. We regularly communicate with our patients during such surgeries to monitor their speech, their motor actions.”

He further said-

“In this particular surgery, when we asked the patient as to what she would like to talk about, she said that she was a Hanuman bhakt (devotee). On further conversation, the surgical team asked the girl whether she would like to recite something and she agreed to recite the Hanuman Chalisa.”

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Recitation helped with patient-surgeon interaction, monitoring of speech

He further said-

“One of the reasons why the Hanuman Chalisa recitation helped was because it led to patient-surgeon interaction. Further, if during the course of surgery, her speech suffered with any issue, we would have picked it up and worked on it. Since the tumor is on the left side of the patient’s brain, we had to remove a small part from the back side of the brain which involves risk as the part is associated to speech and if it’s interfered with, a patient may lose their speech.”

“The patient normally recited the Hanuman Chalisa verses and the surgery was completed uneventfully,”

-said the doctor and added that the hospital has been conducting such complex brain surgeries since the past 20 years.

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What are Awake Surgeries?

Also known as awake craniotomy, awake surgeries are performed on the brain while the patient is in an alert and awake state. The surgeries are conducted across multiple brain conditions including tumors and seizures.

The responses a patient gives during the surgery while the latter operates on them can help the surgeons and lowers risk to damage to key areas which may affect vision, speech and movement.