WATCH: Female patient watches film as doctors perform brain tumour surgery in southern India

Published on Authored by The Free Press Journal

A 55-year-old woman suffering from brain tumour was recently treated at the Kakinada Government General Hospital in Andhra Pradesh, where the doctors performed an awake craniotomy surgery on her. During the 2.5-hour-long medical procedure, she was engaged in watching scenes from the Telugu comedy film Adurs.

The patient watched a Telegu film during the surgery. Photo courtesy: Free Press Journal
The patient watched a Telegu film during the surgery. Photo courtesy: Free Press Journal

Identified as Anantalakshmi from Kottapalli in Andhra Pradesh, the female patient tuned into the comedy scenes featuring actors Jr. NTR and Brahmanandam. The video of this moment is now going viral on social media.

As per reports, the surgery was successful.

The video showed the hospital staff assisting Anantalakshmi to hold a tablet in front of her and watch the movie. Gloves-clad staff held the screen to show the patient the movie during the duration of the surgery.

The incident was filmed on camera, and it is now gaining traction on social media. People reacted to the video with Brahmanandam memes and took note of how medical procedures used movies to make the patient comfortable and engaged during intensive surgeries.

Earlier, similar visuals surfaced from the operation theater in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. In this case, reported in 2017, 43-year-old Vinaya Kumari, who was diagnosed with a tumour in the brain, underwent the brain surgery while watching Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. The surgery reportedly concluded in one and a half hours, much before the movie ended.

(The article is published under a mutual content partnership arrangement between The Free Press Journal and Connected to India)