A RARE FIRST BY DOCTORS IN UAE: UAE became the first country in the Arab world when a team of 20 medical professionals at Dubai’s Latifa Hospital recently conducted a successful surgery on a 25-week-old foetus weighing only 700gm to rectify a rare condition in the spinal cord that could have had life-threatening implications. That this was an extremely complicated and risky procedure can be easily understood from the fact that since 1995, there have been only 250 such procedures conducted in the entire world. This surgery bears testimony to Dubai and the UAE’s commitment to cutting-edge medical care for lives around the world – and even those yet to be born! [COMMENT BY: Sanjib Kumar Das, Assistant Editor]