Fattouma Bourguiba Teaching Hospital boasts unprecedented surgery

Tunis: A medical team at the Fattouma Bourguiba Teaching Hospital in Monastir recently managed to remove a tumour using, for the first time in Tunisia, endoscopic endonasal surgery at the skull base in the neurosurgery ward.

This feat was achieved under the second Tunisian Neurosurgical Anatomy Course, with the participation of experts and specialists from Germany, Italy and Argentina.

The surgery lasted almost four hours and was a success, reads a Health Ministry press release. The patient will be discharged shortly.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse