250-pound Syrian brown bear lies on the operating table as it gets surgery for a ruptured disc A group of expert doctors from the Hebrew University Veterinary Hospital, headed by Dr Meirav Shamir who specialises in neurology and neurosurgery, were invited to examine Mango. After diagnosing bear with a ruptured disc, the safaris Veterinarian, Dr Yigal Horowitz, sedated him and transferred him to the Safari Hospital - where a team of at least ten people were required to lift him on to the operating table. Following x-rays and several tests, Mango was found to have a rupture between discs two and three - requiring surgery which staff believe had never before been performed on a bear of this size. Mangos back was shaved before the complex ten-hour operation, conducted by Dr Shamir and assisted by Dr Orit Chai, which left his spinal cord exposed for more than five hours.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:51:26 +0000