According to the director of the fetal and neonatal surgery program of the Health Ministry (Minsa), Nestor Pavon, this stands as a true process of restitution of human rights and protection of life, which has become a spearhead at regional level.

Speaking to the Informe Pastran bulletin, the first Nicaraguan fetal surgeon specified that since 2021 they have performed 251 intrauterine fetal surgeries here, making headways in prenatal care, and also performed 250 neonatal surgeries.

We are talking about more than 500 fetal and neonatal surgeries that have been performed under the program by more than 20 subspecialists, who have dealt with cases of spina bifida or myelomeningocele, a congenital anomaly, he stressed.

Pavón acknowledged local surgeons who made it possible for several children to walk after completing the surgeries and going through physical therapies and rehabilitation at health units.

Accordingly, many infants with birth disabilities have been operated on through intra-uterus methods, he said.

In Pavon’s words, no other Central American country is performing this type of surgeries, much to the pride of the Nicaraguan health and government program, which has guaranteed the virtual disappearance of hydrocephaly in the fetal and neonatal stage in Nicaragua.

Official data indicate that surgeries performed in the womb in Nicaragua have a 92 percent success rate, while those performed on newborns boast 98 percent.

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