Boy with brain outside skull needs Sh2m for chance to live

Lillian Makena, the nurse who has been taking care of Brian Gitau, describes him as an adorable and very healthy baby despite his condition of having the brain growing outside his head. Brian, who has been at the Consolata Mission Hospital Mathari in Nyeri since birth, requires Sh 2 million to undergo facial and neurosurgery. PHOTO: MOSE SAMMY/STANDARD

A baby born with its brain outside the skull is thriving in a Nyeri hospital more than a year after doctors declared he had little chance of survival.

Brian Gitau, now aged one year and four months, has puzzled doctors and the fraternity at the Catholic-sponsored Consolata Mission Hospital, Mathari with his determination to live.