Abu Dhabi: Believe it or not, a South American woman flew down to Abu Dhabi all the way from Colombia during her 26th week of pregnancy so that she could avail the necessary expertise to get a spinal defect in her unborn baby corrected in utero.
Twenty six-year-old of Maria Victoria said she and her husband Gomez Sotelo were keenly awaiting the arrival of their first child when a routine scan at 23-24 weeks’ gestation revealed that their unborn baby had Spina Bifida, a birth defect affecting the spinal cord.
Subsequently, Victoria’s doctors in her home country advised her to go in for an in-utero Spina Bifida repair to give her baby the best chance at a normal life. However, the challenge of getting the procedure done as early as possible remained because of the advanced stage of her gestation.
It was at this point that an Abu Dhabi-based hospital’s expertise in…
