A stem cell surgery was performed at the BGS Global Hospital in India to try to heal the brain injury suffered by a patient in a road accident in December 2008. The surgery was performed on Madhumalika who suffered from a condition called ‘diffuse axonal brain injury’. The condition had left the patient in a coma for more than three months forcing her parents to retire from work to look after her. Madhumalika’s parents had lost hope that she would ever recover but still decided that they would try everything possible so that their daughter would get well.