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Neurosurgeon Kapil Khandelwal recounts Élodie Thomas operation in Mauritius

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Indian neurosurgeon Kapil Khandelwal discusses the operation carried out in Mauritius to remove the bullet lodged near Élodie Thomas’s brainstem after she was shot. He describes the preparation from a distance, coordination with the local team and the specialists’ travel, in an interview published by Defimedia.

Indian neurosurgeon Kapil Khandelwal took part in the operation in Mauritius on Élodie Thomas, who was shot and whose life was threatened by a projectile lodged a few millimetres from the brainstem. In an interview with Defimedia, he described the mobilisation of his team after being informed by his KIMS unit that a patient in intensive care required urgent surgery.

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