Pune: A cosmetic back deformity surgery was successfully conducted on a 14-year-old girl from Satara at a city-based government hospital. The child and her parents had been looking for a treatment for scoliosis in many hospitals over the past few years.

As the treatment was a complicated procedure, it required a tertiary care centre with highly-skilled speciality surgeons, nurses and paramedical staff, of which her family could not bear. They were told that it will cost up to Rs 5-6 lakhs in a private hospital. Furthermore, she had a deformity of around 50 degrees in her upper back and 60 degrees in her lower back, making the procedure even more difficult.