A 19-year-old motorcycle accident victim survived emergency brain surgery at the Abia State Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Centre in Umuahia. Doctors evacuated more than 100 millilitres of blood clot that was compressing the patient's brainstem. The victim had been brought to the hospital in a deep coma with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of six out of 15, which later deteriorated to five. The four-hour operation was performed after investigations revealed massive bleeding inside the victim's skull.
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