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An NHS surgeon will become the first in the UK to perform an operation using a specially adapted wheelchair after becoming paralysed.
Mohammed Belal, 48, is set to go back into the theatre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a freak cycling accident. The milestone of returning to work makes him one of few surgeons in the world who has returned to the operating table after being paralysed.
The 48-year-old is a leading neuro-urology surgeon who often treats patients with spinal injuries similar to his. Following more than 1,000 hours of rehabilitation he returned to work this month and is believed to be the only paralysed NHS surgeon.
Mohammed, who has worked at the hospital for 11 years, was given a special electric wheelchair with a hydraulic seat by the University of Birmingham Hospitals NHS trust. It can be raised up to support him in a standing position while operating and has braces that lock around his knees which can be tilted and lean him over the patient.
Tomorrow, he will be using the chair for the first time, fitting an artificial urinary sphincter, an operation scheduled to take two to three hours. Mohammed told the Mirror: 'I feel
