UAE: Meet the medical team that sang Baby Shark to calm a toddler during surgery

When 16-month-old Mohammed Hassan was brought to Thumbay Medical Hospital with a crushed fingertip, he was bawling in pain. Medics found it difficult to treat his injury — until a group of medical students sang and danced.

In a video that recently went viral on social media, the students of Gulf Medical University (GMU) are seen clapping and singing the popular children's song 'Baby Shark' — and it worked like a charm. Entertained, the little boy seems not to notice the procedure being done on his left finger.

"Mohammed's finger was accidentally crushed in a door while playing with his elder sister," said the toddler's father Ahmed Hassan.

The family took him to different hospitals, where they were told that a surgery under general anaesthesia was required. "I was not ready for general anaesthesia for such young child," Ahmed said.

When they rushed him to Thumbay University Hospital in Ajman, however, Dr Faisal Ameer —a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon — said the procedure could be done with local anaesthesia.

- ayaz@khaleejtimes.com