On ventilator for 1 year, Kenyan boy gets back on feet

Bengaluru | Friday | 7th December, 2018

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His body was paralysed below the neck and he was surviving on ventilator support.The boy was brought to the city in August 2018 and underwent deep brain stimulation procedure at Aster CMI Hospital. But his spinal cord was dislocated, which affected his breathing. But the damage to his brain and spinal cord worsened his condition. But being used to a ventilator for a long time, Blassio resisted every attempt to make him breathe more. “The boy was operated in his country in 2016 to fix the fracture i n his neck..