Roona Begum recovering after five hydrocephalus surgery

Roona Begum before surgery

Roona Begum after surgery

Roona Begun was born in a remote village on north-eastern India to a family of Rehman. Soon after she was born, she was diagnosed with an extreme form of hydrocephalus. The head grew to a circumference of 94 centimetres; almost triple the size of a normal baby. According to Roona’s father, Abdul Rehman,  her head started growing bigger day-by-day, she lost appetite for food and it became very difficult for her to be carried anywhere. There were ten liters of excess fluid inside her brain. Her head was so heavy she could barely move.The skin of her head has stretched so far that it pulled her eyelids over her eyes, making it impossible for Roona to see.Her mother, Fatima explains that She had such a big head, it was scary for people to see her.Roona  parents couldn't afford to treat her. Her father, who works at a brick kiln, earns less than $3... in a day.
With the intervention of Norwegian students, Natalie Krantz and Jonas Borchgrevink, who were moved with compassion for her put her photo on a crowd funding website, are hoping to raise $1,600 to cover her shunt surgery at Fortis Hospital in New Delhi. They were able to raise more than a sum of $60,000 by August 2013 and have transferred half of this amount to the hospital to commence the operation. At the hospital, the neurosurgeon, Vaishya, initially, wasn't hopeful about the surgery.
He says the surgery posed a huge risk to her life, and at one point they almost lost her.Much to the relief of her parents and her doctors, Roona has pulled through.After five surgeries, Roona's head is now down to a circumference of 58 centimeters, still larger than the average 38 to 48 centimeters, but small enough to allow her to live a reasonably normal life.