Al-Kamali breathes hope into people’s life [Archives:2003/663/Health]
August 28 2003
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It is a wonderful job the man is doing to get people relieved, breathing hope into their lives. He has succeeded in many operations of neurosurgery. He has treated 800 cases of disc prolapsed in Yemen, 225 in Egypt; 186 in brain tumors in Yemen, 150 brain gun shot cases, 130 cases of spine T.B., lots of cases of head injuries and many others.
Among such cases is that of Hana Mohammed Saleh, 17 years old. This girl was suffering from paraplegia. She could not move at all; no sensation at both lower limb. “Clinical and radiological investigations revealed the presence of spinal cord tumor,” Dr. Amin al-Kamali told Yemen Times, adding, “We have run an operation and could remove the tumor completely. She has improved rapidly and markedly.” You can see her now standing behind her doctor, walking and having full sensation. “We have done forty five cases of spinal tumor, forty three out of them improved”, Professor Kamali pointed out. “Patients take time to improve but this case of Hana is exceptional because she improved very quickly and in five days only,” he said. It was impossible to carry out such operations in the past few years in Yemen.
Hana's father could not express his happiness to see his paralyzed daughter walking again. “I am happy; she is walking now. She was totally paralyzed and could never move for over two months,” Mohammed Saleh told Yemen Times. H said that Hana caught fire and her body was burnt while she was one and half year old. He said that she was attended by many doctors who did 35 operations in her thin body. She improved but two months ago she went paralyzed. Her father sought the help of some doctors but to no avail. He was advised to seek the help of al-Kamali who could bring her hope in life again after she went desperate. Her father is a poor man and such an operation costs a lot but al-Kamali with his kind heart did the operation at a minimum cost for the man is not practicing medicine for business as he was offered good jobs with handsome salary outside Yemen.
Another case is that of Abdullah Mohammed Su'ar, 54 years old. He was suffering from left side hemplegia; he could not move his upper and lower limbs which were completely paralyzed. He was brought from Haja the second day of the brain affection. Radiological investigations showed his right side brain was infracted. “He has been treated conservatively and improved; he started to move his upper limb, then the lower limp. He is now walking after seven days of treatment,” Dr. Kamali said.
Such cases are common due to cardiac impairment, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and others. Brain insult or affection represents the forth cause of death all over the world. “In such cases if patients are treated correctly and rapidly, they improve, otherwise they become handicapped,” the doctor said. He pointed out that the most common cases of neurological diseases in Yemen are discprolapse, epileptic fits, and C.V.A
Discprolapse (back pain) is caused by hard work, carrying of heavy objects, and bad habits in Yemen like the way of sitting while chewing qat. “This represents 40% out of the cases seeking doctors' clinic for treatment for neurosurgical diseases,” Kamali said.
The third important case is that of a 9-year old Tawfeek Awadh. He was suffering from coma for 4 days and after investigations it was shown that he had hydrocephalus. After the operation conducted by al-Kamali, the child resumed his conscious, started speaking and walking. “This condition may result from inflammatory cognital or due to brain tumors. It is one of the common spread ceases in Yemen,” the doctor said.
Dr. Amin al-Kamali, first Yemeni M.D. holder in neurosurgery, has been doing a marvelous and laudable work. For this, he is working very hard and is busy all the time moving from one hospital to another, beside his work in his clinic till late midnight to help the patients seeking his help from all over the country having heard of his extraordinary success in making very serious operations and curing very difficult cases in neurosurgical diseases. He is also working as an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Sana'a University. Al-Kamali is a consultant of spine neurosurgery and visiting Dr. at Ain Shams University in Egypt for 10 years. He is a member of many societies like Pan Arab Neurosurgery and Spine Neurosurgery, Egypt Society for Neurosurgery, and World Federation of Neurosurgery Society. He has taken courses in pediatric neurosurgery, stereo tactic surgery, pituitary surgery, 3 spine surgery, endoscopic disc surgery, microscopic surgery and others fields.
Dr. Kamali has been recently selected as one of the main speakers in the coming conference of World Federation Neurosurgical Society. The event will be held in Morocco 2005 as it is run every 5 years. It is the first time that such an important medical event will be held in Africa and Arab World, and has never been run in any country in Asia.
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