Hospital postpones surgery on baby with rare brain condition

Baby Brian Gitau, who was born with a rare brain condition known as anencephaly. Consolata Mission Hospital has launched a funds drive to help raise Sh2 million for his treatment. [Photo: Job Weru/Standard]

A scheduled surgical operation for a baby who was born with a condition which causes the brain to be outside the skull has been postponed.

Baby Brian Gitau was supposed to undergo cleft lip surgery on Friday last week but medics at Consolata Mission Hospital in Nyeri moved the operation to this week to allow the boy to stabilise.