Boy comatosed after basketball accident, undergoes surgery

The Majeediyya School student who went into a coma after being hit in the head by a basketball has undergone surgery in a hospital in Sri Lanka.

Ali Shaan, 14, went into a coma yesterday morning after a ball hit him in the head while playing basketball in Hulhumale’ with his friends.

Shaan’s brother Mohamed Sameer told Sun that Shaan was taken into surgery late last night and that the blood haemorrhaged onto his brain has now been withdrawn. He is still in a coma, his brother said.

“The operation was performed around 4:30 in the morning. He has not woken up yet. His condition has not worsened either,” Sameer said.

Shaan had to be transported to a hospital in Sri Lanka as Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGHM) did not have the means to treat him.

Shaan’s family said earlier that after the ball had hit Shaan on the nose, his friends had taken him to the hospital, and that he had passed out right before they could enter the hospital.