A team of medical doctors, led by Israeli trained neurosurgeon Dr Kingsley Enoh Nkongho and assisted by Dr Christopher Giddo and Dr Verla, has performed a ground breaking surgery in Buea, Cameroon.

According to The Post newspaper (Cameroonian Weekly), Dr Enoh Nkongho and his team found that the patient, 21-year old Emmanuel Lalende had a history of right-sided jerky movements known as Jacksonian Epilepsy. An MRI scan was conducted to enable the correct identification of the location of the disorder after which a corrective neurosurgery was successfully performed.

Dr Enoh Nkongho is not the first to treat this form of epilepsy in the world, nor is he making any such claim. However, The Post reveals that

• The operation was performed with rather rudimentary equipment
• The patient’s skull was literally sawed open as the medical facility did not have the necessary equipment to access the brain
• The surgery that would otherwise have cost about $15,000(US) was done free of charge.

After the procedure, Dr Enoh Nkongho said that he decided to do it despite the risks to show not only that such surgical know-how existed in Cameroon, but also that medical practitioners can adapt equipment designed for other purposes to do their job.

Amongst other qualifications obtained in other medical institutions, Dr Enoh Nkongho obtained a Post-Graduate Certificate in neurosurgery from the Tel Aviv University at the end of a course sponsored by the Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) in 2007.

From 2007 – 2010, he was a Resident in Neurosurgery at the Rabin Medical Centre, Petach Tikva in Israel.

Dr Enoh Nkongho holds Medical licenses from Cameroon, Nigeria, Israel and Tanzania. He speaks Ejagham, English, French, Swahili and Hebrew.

Read The Post article​