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Italians are known for their cooking, and their penchant for infusing olives and olive oil into most of their dishes. Hardly a fortnight ago, they brought olives into the surgical theatre too, where as a team of surgeons cracked open the skull of a 60-year-old former cook, she meticulously stuffed 90 olives with meat. They got out the tumour and is on her way to recovery. Craniotomy is the surgical removal of a portion of the skull to enable surgeons to access the brain. Awake craniotomy is mostly done on patients with brain tumours or epileptic focus found near critical areas of the brain.
The surgeries are sometimes carried out when the patient is performing a task to enable the medics immediately know when they have disturbed critical brain functions. In Kenya, the practice is catching on too. Kenya did its first awake craniotomy in 2015 when a team of surgeons led by Kenyatta National Hospital neurosurgeon Samuel Njiru operated on a patient with a brain tumour. The surgery was done in collaboration with the University of Toronto and Egerton University at the Nakuru County Referral Hospital.
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