When baby Raimas Alzahayawat was a month-old, the left side of her face started swelling with blood oozing out of it. By the time she was six-month-old, the left side was completely swollen due to abnormal growth of nerves. She stopped eating owing to her facial deformity. The Iraqi national recently got a new lease of time after undergoing a complicated plastic surgery at a city-based hospital after being an year old.

Ever since the baby's face began swelling, the family has been running from pillar to post to find an appropriate solution. At the age of six months, she underwent injection treatment (sclerotherapy) at a local hospital. But this made the skin over the swelling become fragile with two-three episodes of severe bleeding from the lesion. With no treatment available locally, the baby was referred to Global Hospital, Parel in July. A surgery of removal (excision) of the vascular malformation and reconstruction of the large soft tissue defect over the face was performed here.