Sandakan man with brain tumour undergoes Sabah’s second 'awake brain surgery'

The team of surgeons who completed the successful awake craniotomy procedure.

KOTA KINABALU: A 40-year-old man suffering from a brain tumour was the second person to undergo the "awake craniotomy" procedure in Sabah on July 11.

The man from Sandakan successfully went under the knife as a conscious patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital II (QEH2) here thanks to a team of surgeons from QEH2 as well as Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM), Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.