Born with a rare congenital disorder, four-month-old Kartik Pavra underwent a successful correction surgery at Wadia Hospital and left for his village in Nandurbar along with his parents on Thursday evening. The disorder had led to a part of Kartik’s brain hanging over his eyes and almost blocking his nose.   

Speaking to mid-day, Dr Chandrashekhar Deopujari, an honorary neurosurgeon at Wadia Hospital, who operated on Kartik, said, “When he came to us, he had a huge swelling on his face, which hung over his eyes and almost blocked his nose. The swelling made it difficult for him to eat, breathe and even his vision was distorted.” He added that Kartik was diagnosed with a rare congenital encephalocele disorder, in which the bones of the skull do not close completely when the foetus is growing in the uterus.